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Content Area: Math
Index: 4.2D Grade 2 CPI 1
Standard: 4.2 - Geometry and Measurement
Strand: D - Units of Measurement
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will directly compare and order objects according to measurable attributes (attributes – length, weight, capacity, time, temperature)
Grade: 2
Sample Activities
· Kindergarten students listen to and look at the book Big Friend, Little Friend by Eloise Greenfield. In it a young boy and his two friends explore situations that clearly demonstrate what it means to be big and what it means to be little. As a nice follow-up assessment activity to this and other manipulative activities, the teacher has the students draw pictures which illustrate "big and little."
· Students compare the lengths of pencils to find out which is longest. They arrange a set of pencils in order from longest to shortest.
· Students use water, rice, or sand to fill different objects, pouring from one object into another to find out which object holds more. They explain how the shape of each object plays a role in the amount it holds.
· Students line up in order, from tallest to shortest.
· Children make stick drawings of a family: father, mother, school-aged child, and baby. They discuss which stick drawings are taller or shorter than others, and relate these to the relative size of the individuals in the family.
· Students collect a large variety of cardboard boxes and arrange them in order from smallest to largest.
· Each group of students is given a cup and several containers of different sizes, plain white paper, some uncooked rice, and 1 inch graph paper. They find out how many cups of rice will fit in each container and show the number of cups as a bar on the graph paper under a picture of the container. After completing the graph, they arrange the containers in order from largest to smallest.
· Students work through the Will a Dinosaur Fit? lesson that is described in the First Four Standards of this Framework. They arrange the dinosaurs in order from tallest to smallest according to their height, and from longest to shortest according to their length.
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