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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.MD.A.1Unit 9: Measurement & data

Long, tall, heavy

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🎯 Objective: Students describe measurable attributes of objects: length, height, weight.

Lesson outline

  1. Hold up a pencil: how could we describe how big it is?
  2. Introduce long/short, tall/short, heavy/light.
  3. Students describe three objects with two attributes each.
  4. Exit: describe your shoe.

Lesson 1 of 5 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

K.MD.A.1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe length, height and weight
  • Compare two objects and tell which is longer, heavier
  • Sort, count and compare categories

✅ 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

🎯 Practice: Measurement & Data📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Measurement & data”

  1. Long, tall, heavy
  2. Longer and shorter
  3. Heavier and lighter
  4. Sort and count
  5. Class surveys

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