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Measure Up!

Grades 1 - 4
Use common and uncommon measuring tools to compare yourself to the world’s fastest, strongest, and most acrobatic animals. How do you measure up?

Students complete various tasks at different stations and compare their measured success against the accomplishments of different animals. They get practice measuring and discover how accomplished some of nature’s animals really are.

Content Standards

CT Grades PreK – 5 Core Scientific Inquiry, Literacy and Numeracy

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: Scientific inquiry is a thoughtful and coordinated attempt to search out, describe, explain and predict natural phenomena.

SCIENTIFIC LITERACY: Scientific literacy includes speaking, listening, presenting, interpreting, reading and writing about science.

SCIENTIFIC NUMERACY: Mathematics provides useful tools for the description, analysis and presentation of scientific data and ideas.

1.2 Living things have different structures and behaviors that allow them to meet their basic needs.

A 14 Describe the structures that animals, including humans, use to move around.

1.4 The properties of materials and organisms can be described more accurately through the use of standard measuring units.

A 17 Estimate, measure and compare the sizes and weights of different objects and organisms using standard and nonstandard measuring tools.

3.2 Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs.

B 3 Describe how different plants and animals are adapted to obtain air, water, food and protection in land habitats

B 4 Describe how different plants and animals are adapted to obtain air, water, food and protection in water habitats.

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