BBC Measures - Internet Activity

10/2/09 updated Link: This is a fun interactive site  found last year and used with my 5th graders as a laptop lab activity. What I loved about this activity is that it gave them a chance to practice the following skills:

• Using a metric ruler
• Determining what increments to use on the ruler
• Finding mass
• Determining what increments to use on the scale
• Using a data table to determine the correct postage based on length and mass
• If a student makes a mistake, they have to try again until they get it right, so they get immediate feedback
• practice collecting data
• the activity is self paced

For students who are done early, I found some great websites that are fun, interactive, and give them a chance to practice their skills, and even challenge them a little bit.

• Fun Brain Measure it! Practice reading a ruler
• Pour to Score - logic problem using volume (kids LOVED this one!)
• Can you fill it? Fill the container with the fewest # of pours
• Can you balance the animals? Uses metric and non metric units, practice conversions.
• Can you balance the poddles?
  

Handouts

• Left Side - activity sheet
• Right Side - metric tic-tac-toe & volume practice