One of the neat things about 4th grade is that students are starting to understand math that can be used to take measurements for experiments. I had to post a link to this really amazing pdf that will help 4th graders practice using a ruler and have fun doing it. This is a great activity that will help 4th graders learn how to read a ruler so that they can collect interesting data. This is also a great math/science center activity for students after they have had an introduction to reading a ruler and fractions. There is so much math practice for fractions in these simple activities that I can not recommend them enough. They also help students with reading and following directions. Before, trying this activity with kids, I like to prepare them for the challenge of reading when you are confused. We review how to reread and how mistakes help us to learn. Make plenty of copies of these because students will want to redo them. I also like this as a partner activity. Each student is responsible for their own work, but I make a partner responsible for checking measurements. Teachers can easily check to see if students are reading a ruler correctly by making a master sheet and then holding it up to the light with the student copy in front. If the student has measured correctly, the teacher copy will correspond to the student copy.
Link to the coolest measuring and reading directions activity ever! Great science measuring center activity for 4th graders.
Also, if you cut off the directions to one sheet and make copies without any directions. Students can create their own measurement sheet with directions. What a great way to bring ELA into the math classroom.
No comments:
Post a Comment