(#35) Metric Measuring
All metric units - meters, liters and grams - are tied to the same physical reference: a water cube that measures 1 centimeter on each side. We want your students to appreciate this elegant simplicity. So we have developed a parallel measuring system based on sugar cubes. (Purchase cube shapes, not bricks, equivalent to 1 teaspoon.) Your students will use them to develop a concrete understanding of length, area, volume and mass. Ten lessons later they will substitute the idea of water cubes and slip painlessly into metrics. Meters, liters and grams all become old friends as your students make rulers, calibrate measuring cups and improvise gram balances.
(#35) METRIC MEASURING is part of our Self-Directing Activity Page Series. It is an 80 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* Getting It Together - Materials * Sequencing Activities * Building an
Effective Teaching Strategy * Diary of a Teacher * Long Range Objectives *
Gaining a Whole Perspective
TEACHING NOTES (20 lessons)
* Metric Stairs (1) * Sweet Lengths * One Dimension * Squared Dimensions
* Cubed Dimensions * Length ... Area ... Volume * Build A Straw Balance *
Sweet Masses * Sweet Volumes * Sugar Cubes/Water Cubes * Metric Stairs (2)
* Dry Measure * Gram Quarters * Gram Grids * Sugar Cube Graph * Liquid
Measure * Granulated Density * Metric Straw * The Last Straw * Sink or
Swim?
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 20 Student Activity Sheets
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(#35) METRIC MEASURING requires no lab equipment or unusual supplies. Just photocopy the 20 activity sheets, gather simple materials (like sugar cubes, clothespins, straws and string), and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 5-9
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1984
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-35-5
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#35 Metric Measuring @ $15.00
#SS106 box sugar
cubes @ $3.00 each
