Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The series consists of theme based books that provide learning experiences in science, math, language, social studies, and art. This book helps students to explore the early origins of measurement, units, and standards, as well as to investigate ways measurement is used in life. Throughout their explorations, students focus on tools used for measurement, methods of estimation and calculation, and decisions made about units, accuracy, and precision.
Students also study height, weight, volume, sound, speech, and energy.
For the final activity, students plan a Measurement Fair where they demonstrate the measurement devices they have constructed and facilitate games they have devised. The book includes activity sheets, suggestions for culminating activities, and a curriculum chart listing subjects covered in the book and corresponding learning goals, along with a list of fiction and nonfiction books related to the topic. Speed of light. Speed of sound. Units of measure.