Math



 In class we are measuring the distance between the roots of a mangrove tree that grows in the Everglades. The students created a life size mangrove tree out of large bulletin board paper. We looked up the measurements on the Everglades website, and made our tree roots to those measurements using rulers.




 * =  Measurements Vocabulary ||
 * =  unit ||= mass ||= second ||
 * =  customary unit ||= time ||= degree Celsius ||
 * =  metric unit ||= temperature ||= International System of Units ||
 * =  length ||= meter ||= deci, centi-, milli- ||
 * =  area ||= liter ||= <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">deka-, hecto-, kilo- ||
 * = <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> volume, capacity ||= <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">kilogram ||= <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Lavoisier ||

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Documents: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Watch the Metric Power Point and complete the worksheets for extra credit! <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A great way to practice converting measurements, especially for my ESOL students, is to play a fun measurement game with a beaver named FunBrain at funbrain.com. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Math Standards

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">MA.4.G.5.3: Identify and build a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional representation of that object and vice versa.