Given a set of familiar objects, the learner will design and describe categories and use them to organize the set. Place the information in a spreadsheet and generate charts to display the results. Students enter measurements into spreadsheet. Use a spreadsheet to chart this information. Students enter results into a spreadsheet.
Teacher discusses the concept of scale with the class.
The student will be able to continue explorations of length, capacity, and weight, and extend familiarity of units to include kilometer, meter, mile, yard, foot, gallon, gram, ounce, and fractional parts of each. Given the results of a simple investigation, the learner will suggest several new questions to investigate. Shown a natural event, the learner will ask several questions related to what happened and what may have caused it to occur. Students conduct research to determine which real animals are endangered species and discuss why they are considered endangered. Given a map, the learner will identify a common physical or human feature found in at least two places around the world.