Lesson Plan
Measuring Furniture
How big is the furniture in your classroom? Get ready to find out! In this lesson, students dive into measuring with yardsticks.
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Learning Objectives
Students will measure using a yardstick.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show students the yardstick. Ask them what they think it measures.
- Tell students that a yardstick is one yard long. One yard is the same as 36 inches, or three feet.
- Take three rulers and put them together. Explain that each ruler is 12 inches long, so three rulers together are 36 inches, or one yard, long.
- Ask students what types of things they might measure with a yardstick. Give them a few examples and have them share whether they would measure with a ruler or a yardstick (smaller things would be measured with a ruler, larger things with a meter stick).