The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching fourth graders about measuring length, emphasizing the definition of length and the importance of standard units such as meters. It includes interactive learning experiences, activities to engage students, and methods to address common misconceptions. Additionally, it provides conversion information for various units of measurement and highlights common errors in unit conversion.

1. HOW TO TEACH
MEASUREMENT
TO GRADE 4

2. LENGTH
LENGTH is how long or how far
away something is.

3. POINTS TO
BE
DISCUSSED
INTRODUCTION
EXPLANATION
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
EVALUATION

4. INTRODUCTION
CREATING INTEREST
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE TESTING
AWARENESS OF MISCONCEPTIONS

5.  1.Draw two lines
 Which one is longer?
2.

6. Which pillar is
longer and which
pillar has same
length as above
pillar?

7.  Call 6 students and make them stand in a line according
to their height.Now call one more student and ask where
she should stand?

8. Announcement of Topic
 To find accurate length of things it is important to
measure them.so we will study about Measurement
of
Length

9. Explanation
 To find length of different objects with
 Palm – length of blackboard
 Foot –length of classroom
 Wooden stick
 Here wooden sick is standard unit of length here. So to
eliminate error in measurement we use standard units
 Standard unit of LENGTH is METRE
This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-NC.

10. Measuring using Ruler

11. Common
Units
1 Yard= 0.914 metre =
36 iinches = 3 feet
1 Foot = 0.348 metre
= 30.48 cm
1 Inch = 2.54 cm

12. PUZZLES
Sunny draw a line and
ask his friend to make
it shorter without
erasing it.
What weighs more –
a kilo of blueberries or
a kilo of feather?

13. ACTIVITIES
Build a city scape.
Show them pictures of
a family and ask them to tell who
is tallest

14. Conversion of Units

15. MNEMONICS
King Kangaroo Kele KILOMETRE
Henry Hopping H HECTOMETRE
Died Down Dukaan DECAMETRE
UNIT Mountain M METRE
Drinking Drinking Dukaan DECIMETRE
Chocolate Chocolate Se CENTIMETRE
Milk Milk Mangwao MILLIMETRE

18. Common Errors
WRONG CORRECT
7m 2cm = 72 cm 7m 2cm = 700 cm + 2
cm
= 702 cm