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  Measuring Rules
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  In this math activity, learners create their own units of measurement by making noodle rulers. Learners practice estimating and measuring objects using the noodle rulers .
   
Line Up: Using Math To Stand In Line
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  Put math of measurement into lining up — and make waiting in line fun. Choose a size characteristic that learners can physically compare, such as foot length or hair length.
   
Pea Brain!: Explorations in Estimation
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  In this activity, learners use two different techniques to estimate how many little things fit into one bigger thing.
   
How Small Can You Cut?
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  In this lesson, learners cut paper into very small pieces to explore the small size of quarks, the smallest thing we know of on Earth.
   
Make a Dinosaur
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" by Byron Barton to understand some background information about dinosaurs.
   
Supersize That Dinosaur
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most. Then, learners estimate the size of a Triceratops and T.
   
Size, Mass, Area, and Volume
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  In this activity (page 23 of PDF), learners conduct an experiment to determine how the size and mass of a projectile affects the area and the volume of an impact crater.
   
Compare Dinosaur Body Parts
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  In this activity, learners explore the size and scale of dinosaurs. Learners listen to "The Littlest Dinosaurs" by Bernard Most to learn about the different sizes of dinosaurs.
   
Exploring Measurement
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  In this "Sid the Science Kid" activity, learners use their bodies to measure a room. Instead of inches or feet, how many kids does it take to measure the length of a room?
  More Bubbles!
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  In this math activity, learners make their own bubble wands and determine if the size of the wand affects the number of bubbles it produces.
   
Comparing Sizes of Microorganisms
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  In this activity related to microbes, learners create scale models of microorganisms and compare relative sizes of common bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa using metric measures: meters, centimete
   
Gummy Growth
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  In this activity related to Archimedes' Principle, learners use water displacement to compare the volume of an expanded gummy bear with a gummy bear in its original condition.
  Big and Little Cups
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  In this indoor or outdoor water activity, learners pour water from small cups to large cups and containers. In doing so, they discover water takes the shape of its container.
   
Small Snails, Enormous Elephants
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  This activity (located on page 2 of PDF) introduces learners to the real size of animals using nonstandard measurement.
   
How Big is Small
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  In this classic hands-on activity, learners estimate the length of a molecule by floating a fatty acid (oleic acid) on water.
   
Good Catch!
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  In this activity, learners "go fishing," then practice ruler use and size/pattern comparison with the animals they catch.
   
Heavy or Light
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  In this activity, learners explore a scale by comparing objects, which look similar but have different weights. Learners predict and then measure the weights of various objects using a scale.
  