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Measurement mania: Measurement Mania is a series of lessons that will actively involve students in several measurement activities. Students will gain hands-on practice while working within the classroom environment in small groups.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics); By Christy Brown.

Measuring pots: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7; Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)

Measuring the waters: This lesson plan uses an excerpt from an oral history about measuring flood waters during Hurricane Floyd to teach students about the many ways measurements can be taken. Students are given an opportunity to practice measuring with a variety of tools and evaluate their effectiveness.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Measuring weight: In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 4.3; In this lesson, students will build an understanding in the difference between density and weight. They will measure objects with a triple beam balance and record their findings.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science); By Erin Denniston.

Milk it for all it's worth: Students will cooperatively discover the equivalent measures of capacity. In addition, students will be given a unit price of milk and will be asked to calculate the price of other units of capacity based on the price given. They will then use this information to determine the most economical buy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By ann dawson.

Mirror, mirror on the ground!: In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of similar triangles and indirect measurement to measure the heights of various objects.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics); By Denise Corbett.

Modeling volume: This activity helps the students see how the volume of something includes the third dimension (width or depth) which is different from area. This activity also helps the students "prove" that the volume formula actually works. Students will already know that the volume of a rectangular prism is found by multiplying the object's length, width, and height. By using the blocks as models of volume, the students should come to realize that volume can be calculated simply by multiplying the area of the base by the height of the rectangular prism. Thus, they will come to realize that there is no need to try and fill the entire box with the tiny 1cm cubes, they can simply fill the bottom (to see how many cubes are there) and figure out how many rows there will be and multiply.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics); By Erin Foerster.

Newspaper basket: Students use measurement skills to create a basket and respond to questions involving fractions, decimals, and geometric measurements.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Susan Jennings.

Partners in measurement: Students will apply their knowledge and demonstrate their ability to use standard and non-standard customary units in a cooperative measurement activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Vanessa Thomas.

Phi: The divine proportion: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.5; The "divine ratio" is valued by designers, artists, and architects because of its interesting and and unique properties. In this lesson for grade six, students learn about this ratio and use it to create a work of art.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

Plant power: Students will plant their own seeds in potting soil and measure plant growth. Before the students' plants are visible above the soil, students will explore the parts and functions of classroom plants and compare growth between the classroom plants. Using the weather channel website, students will predict whether the day's weather conditions are excellent, good, or poor for plant growth.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics and Science); By Rhonda Hathcock.

Post-EOG activities: Student products: In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Geneva Williams.

The problem with parallax: Students will increase their understanding of astronomical measurements by using parallax to measure distances on their school campus. They will also gain an appreciation of the difficulties with such measurements by statistically analyzing the class' results.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 and 9–12 Mathematics and Science); By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.

Project Groundhog: The students will determine the groundhog prediction of either six more weeks of winter or an early spring and see if the prediction was accurate by recording daily weather data for six weeks. Over that six week period the students will be comparing their weekly data with schools around the USA and Canada using the Project Groundhog website.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics and Science); By Jane Diamond.

Rain forest animal movement: Kindergarten students are naturally curious about a variety of animals. In this lesson, students explore the rain forest through books and online videos. Students will observe the movement of animals and then participate in imitation movements. They will then use nonstandard measurement to identify and record the length they moved.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science); By Star Davis.

Scale drawings: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7; In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

Sizing up Sam the Scarecrow: Students will integrate measurement as a math activity during "S" week as they talk about Scarecrows and the Season Fall.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Marsha Thomas.

Solar energy hot box: This hands-on science lesson is great because it allows students to get out of their seats and move about, as well as allows students to work in cooperative groups. The teacher is more of a facilitator and students are more in charge of their own learning processes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science); By Nicole Albright.

Solid graphing: The students will review solid figures using a baggie of assorted snack mix (cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres) and will begin a vertical bar graph showing the number of each solid figure in a bag of assorted snack mix.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics); By Lisa Fletcher.

Soooooo tall!: Students will build a figure out of Legos. There are two groups, and each group is competing with the other. Students build their tower of Legos as high as they can and then measure with a ruler or yard stick. The tower has to be free-standing so the children have to think of ways to keep the tower standing by itself.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics); By Beverly Rose.

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