This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting gallons to quarts.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting centimeters to millimeters.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting feet to yards.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of comparison of capacity (gallons, pints, and quarts).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting gallons and quarts into cups.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting inches to feet.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting inches to yards.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting kilograms and grams into grams.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting miles to feet.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of capacity (english units).

Students conduct Internet research to investigate the purpose and current functioning status of some of the largest dams throughout the world. They investigate the success or failure of eight dams and complete a worksheet. While researching the dams, they also gain an understanding of the scale of these structures by recording and comparing their reservoir capacities. Students come to understand that dams, like all engineered structures, have a finite lifespan and require ongoing maintenance and evaluation for their usefulness.

Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?

Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?

In this first part of a two-part lab activity, students use triple balance beams and graduated cylinders to take measurements and calculate the densities of several common, irregularly shaped objects with the purpose to resolve confusion about mass and density. After this activity, conduct the associated Density Column Lab - Part 2 activity before presenting the associated Density & Miscibility lesson for discussion about concepts that explain what students have observed.

Concluding a two-part lab activity, students use triple balance beams and graduated cylinders to take measurements and calculate densities of several household liquids and compare them to the densities of irregularly shaped objects (as determined in Part 1). Then they create density columns with the three liquids and four solid items to test their calculations and predictions of the different densities. Once their density columns are complete, students determine the effect of adding detergent to the columns. After this activity, present the associated Density & Miscibility lesson for a discussion about why the column layers do not mix.

Students begin by following instructions to connect a Sunfounder Ultrasonic Sensor and an Arduino Microcontroller. Once they have them set up, students calibrate the sensor and practice using it. Students are then given an engineering design problem: to build a product that will use the ultrasonic sensors for a purpose that they all specify. Students will have to work together to design and test their product, and ultimately present it to their classmates.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of capacity - word problems.

This video explains and shows definitions and example of the words: volume, area, surface area, and base. It also talks about word problems associated with volume and area. Students need to figure out if the provided story problems are finding the correct thing, volume or area, based on the object. Explanations of the correct answer are provided.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about distances between points on multiple routes (metric units).