Thinkabara

🧮 4th Grade · Math4.MD.A.1Unit 10: Measurement conversions

Metric units

Google Classroom

🎯 Objective: Students convert kilometers, meters, centimeters, kilograms and grams, liters and milliliters.

Lesson outline

  1. Metric staircase: km, m, cm; kg, g; L, mL.
  2. Convert by multiplying by 10, 100, 1,000.
  3. Word problems.
  4. Exit: 4 kg = ? g.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4.MD.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Convert larger units to smaller units in one system
  • Solve problems with area and perimeter formulas

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

🗓️ Plan the whole year like this

Add 4th Grade Math to your free Lesson Planner: enter your timetable once and every period shows the next lesson, skipping weekends and school breaks.

Add to my planner See the year’s sequence

More lessons in “Measurement conversions”

  1. Customary length
  2. Customary weight and capacity
  3. Metric units
  4. Time conversions
  5. Area and perimeter formulas
  6. Line plots with fractions

Something to improve in this lesson? Tell us.