Measuring

P5 began by working with a partner to find something they thought was about 10cm long. We then spoke about how to accurately measure this and did so using rulers. I then challenged them to find something that was 30cm long and how could they do this. Some recognised that they could use their 10cm object to help them find something that may be 30cm. We got a lot more accurate or nearly accurate estimated objects this time.

Their main activity was working in pairs to complete a worksheet that had different things on it e.g. measure something longer than your arm, something green, something that was never living etc. They had to record the measurement using only cm and also m and cm. They had access to rulers, metre sticks and measuring tapes to help them with this activity.

Back in class they were going to use this information to put it in to graphs so they could see more easily the differences between longest and shortest etc.