Measurement

This is one of the measurement activities that we recently used in our classroom.

Equipment

• Construction paper shapes
• Unifix cubes
• Paper (optional - to record lengths)

Activity

• The children predict them length of the fish.
• The children use unifix cubes to measure how long each of the fish are. 
• The teacher , or children record the length of the fish.
• They children compare the fish and order them by length (longest to shortest etc.)
•  As a lesson extention you may have children draw their own fish and measure how long it is.
• Or you could have them move around the room and measure other objects in the classroom.

Skills 

• estimating lengths of objects
• measuring objects using informal attributes
• sorting objects by length
• comparing lengths
• reading and writing numbers
• using vocabulary such as - longer, shorter, predict, measure, units, length, more and less

Unifix cubes are about one inch long.  When we were using them I used the word 'units' as a generic term so that when we are using other informal measuring tools the children won't be confused by the terminology.