Measurement Words
Is time a measurment?
Yes of how long it takes to do things.
pencil sharpener, car, lunchbag
Which is bigger? A schoolbus or a dumptruck?
A schoolbus
What is a nonstandard measurement unit?
Anything that is not a regular measuring device.
The tool we use to measure weight is called a:
Scale
What is height?
How tall or short something is.
Put these objects in order from shortest to tallest.
Calgary tower, you, a flagpole
You, a flagpole, Calgary tower
What is taller?
A door or a table?
A door.
What should you use to measure the length of the classroom? Why?
Pencil sharpeners or wagons?
Wagons becuase they are bigger. It would take too many pencil sharpeners to measure the room, you could loose count or you might not have enough.
Why might someone need to measure something?
What is capacity?
How much something can hold inside of it.
Put these objects in order from shortest to longest:
a shoelace, a paper clip, a whiteboard marker
a paperclip, a whiteboard marker, a shoelace
What is longer? A school bus or the school field?
The school field.
Wooden cubes or paper clips.
Wooden cubes. Books are heavy and paper clips are very light. It would take alot of paper clips to weight a book.
What is an estimate in measurement?
It is a good guess about how long something will be.
What is perimeter?
The distance around a shape or space.
Put these objects in order from heaviest to lightest:
a yellow ruler, your backpack, the wagon
the wagon, your backpack, a yellow ruler
What is lighter? A book or a pencil?
A pencil.
What are three things you must remember when using non standard measurement.
- you have to use the exact thing thing over and over
- you have to line up the measurement items
- you have to start at one end of the item you are measuring and measuring a straight line to the other end
I have one short cup and one tall cup. Why do they have the same capacity?
The short cup is wider and the tall cup is skinnier making them hold the same amount even though their height is different.
Is weight and mass the same thing?
No, mass is how much space something take ups. Weight is how much gravitional froce is pushing down on something make it feel heavy or light.
Put these objects in order of largest capacity to smallest capactiy:
your water bottle, a swimming pool, the ocean
the ocean, a swimming pool, your water bottle
What has more capacity? A soup bowl or a bucket?
A bucket.
What does iteration mean?
It is when you use one item over and over to measure something.
Why do we weight less on the moon?
There is less gravitional pull (less gravity) on the moon because the moon is much smaller than Earth.