Metric Scavenger Hunt

This a scavenger hunt where students need to find objects in the classroom that are in incriments of centimeters and meters. This allows students to relate real world objects to metric measurements. This is a interactive whole group lesson to demonstrate estimating metric measurements of length.

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Metric Scavenger Hunt

Standards & Objectives

Learning objectives:

Purpose:

To practice estimating metric measurements of length.

Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level:

Remembering

Helpful Hints

Materials:

Pencil
Centimeter ruler and meterstick
Objects to measure

References

Contributors:

Originator:

Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation

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