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Features

  • The goal and its "I can" line, what to get ready and the words to use
  • A 45 minute lesson in five steps (warm up, teach with words to say, try it together, practice, exit ticket)
  • Questions to ask, and the mistakes students make and what to do about them
  • Ideas for students who need help or are ready for more
  • Each plan ends with the Animal Math worksheets, tools and quiz for that lesson
  • Lessons: metric length, mass and liquid volume with decimals, customary length, weight and capacity with fractions, and multi-step conversion stories
  • Lessons 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8 (units of time and elapsed time, choosing a metric unit and estimating, and measuring to the sixteenth inch and millimeter) are for the states that teach them in 5th grade

5th Grade Math CurriculumUnit 10

These are the lesson plans for Unit 10 of 16 in the 5th Grade Math Curriculum: 127 lessons in teaching order, week by week, each with a lesson plan and an exit ticket.

Also for this unit: exit tickets, pre-check, unit review and test. See the whole year

Resources for Each Lesson

Everything each lesson plan points to, with links. Sheet numbers count worksheets: a color pack prints each sheet again in black and white.

10.1 Metric length

10.2 Metric mass and liquid volume

10.3 Customary length

10.4 Customary weight and capacity

10.5 Units of time and elapsed time ★

10.6 Multi-step conversion stories

10.7 Choose a unit, estimate and measure ★

10.8 Measure to the sixteenth inch and millimeter ★

★ Taught in 5th grade in some states.

Skills Covered

  • Kilometers, meters, centimeters and millimeters with decimals
  • Kilograms and grams, liters and milliliters
  • Miles, yards, feet and inches with fractions
  • Tons, pounds and ounces
  • Gallons, quarts, pints, cups and fluid ounces
  • Compare amounts in two units
  • Multi-step conversion stories
  • Units of time and elapsed time across noon
  • Choose a metric unit, estimate and measure
  • Measure to the sixteenth inch and millimeter

How to Use This Pack

Eight lesson plans, one for each lesson of the tenth unit of 5th grade, measurement conversions, in teaching order, after an overview page that lays the unit out day by day: a pre-check, the eight lessons, a review and the unit test. Each plan fits on one page. It gives the goal, what to get ready, the words to use, the lesson in five steps with the words to say, questions to ask, common mistakes and what to do about them, and the Animal Math worksheets, tools and quiz for the lesson.

In the Classroom

Print the unit, or just the day's page, and teach from it. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes: a 5 minute warm up, 10 minutes of teaching, 10 minutes together, 15 minutes of practice and an exit ticket at the end. Metric conversions lean on multiplying and dividing by powers of ten and customary ones on fractions, so the unit comes after both; keep meter sticks, a scale and containers out all unit. The exit tickets, pre-check, review and unit test are separate packs, made for these lessons, and the plans use other amounts than they do. Lessons 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8 are taught in 5th grade in some states only: units of time and elapsed time (Georgia, South Carolina), choosing a metric unit, estimating and measuring (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia), and measuring to the nearest sixteenth inch and millimeter (Oklahoma, South Carolina); skip the ones your class does not learn.

At Home

Teaching at home? Use the warm up and the "Try it together" step as a short lesson, and the "Words to use" as the way to talk about it. A kitchen scale, measuring cups, a milk carton, a tape measure and a clock are all you need. The mistakes to watch for are the ones most children make.

Tips for Success

  • Read the "Watch for" box before the lesson: it is what to listen for while students work
  • Keep a chart of the conversion facts on the wall all unit
  • Ask "will there be more or fewer of the new unit?" before every conversion
  • Sort the exit tickets into got it, almost and not yet to plan the next day
  • Use the help and challenge ideas for small groups during practice

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 4.MD.A.1 Know how units within one system compare, rewrite a measurement in a smaller unit, and make two-column conversion tables, like yards to feet.
  • 5.MD.A.1 Change measurements between bigger and smaller units of one system, such as 250 cm to 2.5 m, and use this in multi-step real-life problems.

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5th Grade Measurement Conversions Lesson Plans

Lesson plans for every lesson of a unit on measurement conversions, from metric units with decimals to customary units with fractions and multi-step stories. Each one-page plan gives a lesson in five steps, common mistakes and the worksheets to use, after a unit overview.

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What’s Included

  • 8 one-page lesson plans, one for each lesson of the unit
  • A unit overview: the unit day by day, what to get ready, how each lesson goes
  • Words to say, questions to ask and common mistakes for every lesson
  • The worksheets, tools and quiz for each lesson (9 pages in all)
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