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Step into Measuring

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Step into Measuring

Use your hands, footsteps and eyes to measure and compare. Answers may vary when you measure real objects.

Find and measure

Use footsteps to measure a safe, clear path nearby. Use hand spans to measure a small object.

1.Measure a clear path using your footsteps. Write how many footsteps long it is.
2.Choose a safe, small object. Measure it using hand spans. How many hand spans long is it?
3.One person takes 4 footsteps to reach the rain gauge. Another takes 6 footsteps along the same path. Who has the longer footsteps?
  • The person who takes 4 footsteps
  • The person who takes 6 footsteps
  • Their footsteps are the same length

Compare lengths

Look at the measuring strips. Each strip begins at zero. Which one reaches farther?

01234

Strip A: 3 footsteps

0123456

Second strip: 5 footsteps

4.Which measuring strip is longer: A or the second strip?
  • Strip A
  • The second strip
5.Put these lengths in order from shortest to longest: 2 hand spans, 5 hand spans, 3 hand spans.
6.Circle the best unit to measure a long path: hand spans or footsteps?
  • Hand spans
  • Footsteps

Weather station objects

Think about which objects would be longer or shorter.

7.Which object would probably be the longest: a pencil or a windsock?
  • Pencil
  • Windsock
8.Which object would probably be the shortest: a rain gauge or a pencil?
  • Rain gauge
  • Pencil
9.True or false: To compare two lengths fairly, start measuring both objects from the same end.
TrueFalse
10.Draw one object at the weather station that you could measure with footsteps. Tell how you would measure it.

3 printable pages

  • Step into Measuring, page 1 of 3: Find and measure

    Page 1

  • Step into Measuring, page 2 of 3: Compare lengths, Weather station objects

    Page 2

  • Step into Measuring, page 3 of 3: 10. Draw one object at the weather station that you could measure with footsteps.

    Page 3

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