Grade 3 · Math · Unit

Time, Temperature, Mass, and Liquid Volume

6 lessonsabout 4 weeks

The unit ends with three more days: a review day, a day for your own unit check, and a day to act on what the check showed.

Unit 5 of 8 in the Grade 3 Math Scope and Sequence

What's included in this unit

  • 6 lessons in teaching order, each with its objective and a teacher note
  • 24 practice pages to print, with an easier and a harder page where available
  • 2 classroom tools for the projector
  • 6 activities and pages that children do on a screen
  • 6 check-up pages to collect
  • A worksheet maker for every lesson, for the day you need one more page

The whole unit in one file

Print every page of the unit at once, with the teacher guide first. The guide has one page per lesson: the objective, what to hand out, and the teacher note.

Teacher guide only (PDF)

The unit file, the teacher guide, and saved pages are included with the Teacher plan.

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Lessons

Lesson 1

Tell time to the minute

Children read an analog clock to the exact minute and choose the matching time.

3 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Learning Clock · Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
  3. Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.

Warm up and teach

Open Learning Clock on the projector.

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Sprocket's Clock — Read the Clock to the Minute

Check-up page

One more page of To the Minute to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Telling Time maker.

Lesson 2

How much time passed?

Children compare two clock times and find how much time passed between them.

2 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Sprocket's Clock — Elapsed Time: What Time Will It Be?

Check-up page

One more page of How Much Time Passed? to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Telling Time maker.

Lesson 3

Add and subtract time

Children start at a clock time, add or subtract minutes or hours, and write the new time.

2 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Sprocket's Clock — Time Addition & Subtraction

Check-up page

One more page of Add and Subtract Time to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Telling Time maker.

Lesson 4

Read a thermometer

Children read the temperature on a thermometer whose scale counts by 2, by 5, or by 10.

  • Prepares forNGSS 3-ESS2-1

2 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Hot or Cold? (a page that checks the answers)

Check-up page

One more page of Hot or Cold? to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Measurement & Size maker.

Lesson 5

Read a scale in grams

Children add the gram weights on a balance to find how much an object weighs, and read amounts on balance scales and measuring cups, writing each amount with its unit.

3 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Measurement Bench · Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
  3. Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.

Warm up and teach

Open Measurement Bench on the projector.

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Balance Scales in Grams (a page that checks the answers)

Check-up page

One more page of Balance Scales in Grams to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Measurement & Size maker.

Lesson 6

Read a measuring cup

Children read from the scale on a measuring cup how many milliliters of liquid are inside.

  • StandardCommon Core 3.MD.A.2Measurement and Data
  • Prepares forCommon Core 4.MD.A.1Measurement and Data

3 class days

  1. Day 1Teach: Measurement Bench · Practice on paper (Core page)
  2. Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
  3. Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.

Warm up and teach

Open Measurement Bench on the projector.

Practice on paper

Practice on screen

Pippa's Pond-Juice Lab — Pour and Read the Measure

Check-up page

One more page of Reading Measuring Jugs to collect at the end of the lesson.

Make more

Make more pages like this with the Measurement & Size maker.