Decorate your schools with measurement units

Hello!

I hope you are all great!

Today I bring you an idea that I think you will love!

It is a well-known fact among teachers that children love to do anything that involves something different than what they are used to (they love breaking the routine) and that is something so easy to do! We (teachers) just need to get out of our comfort zones, think a bit, and we can create great activities that will motivate our students much mor than just openning the textbooks and do some exercises.

So today I am going to tell you about a great activity to work the measurement units with your students!

When explaining to your students the “jump” between two measurement units (length, capacity or mass), I think that compering it to some stairs, is a great idea. So, for example, when you are going from kilograms to grams, you have to divide between 10 for each step you go up, and if you are doing the opposite, you might multiply for 10 for each step.

Once your students have understood this, you can bring it to the real word! Is it a better way to make your students understand something than bringing it to their world, letting them manipulate it?

Here I have posted a picture in which you can see an example of the stairs made by students in a school and how they play with them.

When you have created the stairs, you can play with them and practice with your students to change from one unit to another.

I hope I have given you an useful idea that you will use in your future classes (when we go back to school after this quarantine) and of course, if you have any comment, any other idea or any picture once you bring this into practice, share it with us!

Thanks for reading!