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fowl_bob
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I have a family member in a private grade school and I am organizing a teaching plan for those grades. I was struck by how measurements are integral to the learning and understanding of so many facets of physical science and math.
I got good feedback from an initial try by teaching distance measurements. I did not start with standards but used a relative measurement approach using a "story stick" to take measurements and compare them to another distance and establish a relationship. I asked them to measure a bookcase and then identify all books that would (or not) fit. As distances increase, materials change and one must pass through standards, conversion factors, geometry, trigonometry, light refraction and relativity physics.
My plan is to have students build all of their own measurement instruments to keep. I have found simple methods for almost all possible measurements using easily acquired materials and occasional battery operated parts.
I hope to get ideas from the forum members that will fill out parts of the program.
fowl_bob
I got good feedback from an initial try by teaching distance measurements. I did not start with standards but used a relative measurement approach using a "story stick" to take measurements and compare them to another distance and establish a relationship. I asked them to measure a bookcase and then identify all books that would (or not) fit. As distances increase, materials change and one must pass through standards, conversion factors, geometry, trigonometry, light refraction and relativity physics.
My plan is to have students build all of their own measurement instruments to keep. I have found simple methods for almost all possible measurements using easily acquired materials and occasional battery operated parts.
I hope to get ideas from the forum members that will fill out parts of the program.
fowl_bob