Measurement+Work+Stations

Follw this link to the livebinders site for the measurement chapter. Click on the tab for chapter 8. [|Measurement Work Stations]

It's important when planning math stations to think about the concepts you want children to understand. This will guide the materials that will be used and the stations activitities. Stations that stretch students' thinking are the most engaging. Notice I didn't write that the stations have to be colorful or even fun. The engagement comes from an appropriate level of learning. If the learning is too easy or too difficult, engagement will suffer. Here's a sample of a chart from //Math Work Stations// that teachers have used when planning station activities. Be sure to fill in the //What We're Teaching// column first.


 * What We're Teaching || Materials We'll Use || Math Work Stations ||

Anchor charts are important. Keep the printing on the charts to a minimum and use kid-friendly language to explain the vocabulary. Add pictures for each term to help students remember them.

Some aha's for me as I read this chapter.
 * Young children need to understand what it //means// to measure.
 * Give students lots of time to feel what it means to measure before giving them recording sheets.
 * If we introduce //inches// and //feet// too early, we might mask what it means to measure length (Diller 188).
 * If your students are having difficulty lining up the materials to measure, try adding velcro to the back of the manipulatives and a strip of velcro along the line they need to measure. No more slipping and sliding manipulatives! (I wish I knew this when I taught first grade!)

This is a link to an online game for telling time. [|Telling Time Game]

The link below has many games that students can play to practice in all areas of measurement. [|Measurement Games]

Do you need a timer? This site has a variety of timers to share with students. [|Online Stopwatch]