Children you might like to<br />
<ul>
<li>List all the things that you can measure and all the different
instruments you can measure things with.</li>
<li>Discuss how accurately you can measure your height. Now do
it!</li>
<li>Consider things you would like to measure that presently you
cannot.</li>
</ul>
<div>Parents you might like to...</div>
<ul>
<li>Bring together all the measuring instruments that you have in
and around the home. How can you classify them?</li>
<li>Discuss the issue of measuring accurately. When does accuracy
matter, when does it not?</li>
<li>What units are used for measuring different things? Make a list
of the units of measure in 'common' usage.</li>
<li>Find out about and discuss the use of compound units of
measurement.</li>
</ul>
<div>Teachers you might like to....</div>
<ul>
<li>Brainstorm any ideas the children already have about
measuring.</li>
<li>Discuss more fully with the children aspects of life that
cannot be accurately measured.</li>
<li>Devise an experiment to test the children's accuracy of
measuring the length of the school hall (say). Discuss the
outcomes!</li>
<li>Encourage the children to devise a scale of measurement for
nosiness/ clumsiness/ naughtiness.</li>
<li>Plan and prepare a story about someone who HAS to measure every
aspect of their life. What would you call such a person?</li>
<li>Work with the children as they set about measuring the water in
a puddle or the weight of an arm or the amount of leaves on a
tree.</li>
</ul>
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