LESSON PLAN

Teacher Candidate: Filza Ijaz Date: March 2, 2011 Grade: 4

Learning Grade 4: Measurement

Expectations Specific Expectations
Attributes, Units, and Measurement Sense

– estimate and determine elapsed time, with and without using a time line, given the durations of events expressed in
five-minute intervals, hours, days, weeks, months, or years (Sample problem: If you wake up at 7:30 a.m., and it
takes you 10 minutes to eat your breakfast, 5 minutes to brush your teeth, 25 minutes to wash and get dressed, 5
minutes to get your backpack ready, and 20 minutes to get to school, will you be at school by 9:00 a.m.?);

– solve problems involving the relationship between years and decades and between decades and centuries
(Sample problem: How many decades old is Canada?);
Assessment & #1-5 and reflect.
Evaluation

Resources Math Makes Sense 4

200-202 in the math textbook
#1-5 and reflect.
http://www.math-aids.com/cgi/conv_time_units.pl?language=0&memo=&answer=1&x=100&y=16
http://www.kidsmathblog.com/time-conversion-worksheets/
Accommodations

Introduction: Exploring Units of Time:

Read the photocopied page from page 200 about King Tutankhamen.
Instruction
Let’s list some units of time [remember to raise your hand to answer].
Time: ex. Days, years, minutes, months, millenniums, weeks, decades, hours, centuries.

Order the units of time in order from shortest to the longest!

(cut and paste activity on each table)

Before we move on to our next activity, we have to first find out what each of these mean:
1 hour: 60mins
1 day: 24 hours
1 week: 7 days
1 month: about 4 weeks
1 year: 12 months or 52 weeks or 365 days
Student 1 decade: 10 years
Application 1 century: 10 decades = 100 years
1 millennium = 10 centuries or 1000 years
Time:
You have every reason to get confused, but we will try not to.
Notice the relationship of each... We use most of these almost every day!

One last activity: Let’s pick one slip from our cut out sheets and we are each going to make a
sentence using the unit of time. But we are not going to write the unit of measure in. For
Conclusion example: if I chose years and write:
My grandma is 7 ___________ old.
Time:
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