{"id":1915,"date":"2014-01-09T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2014-03-17T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:31:55","slug":"kindergarten-measurement-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-17-at-7.34.08-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-17-at-7.34.08-PM-300x225.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-03-17 at 7.34.08 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-17-at-7.34.08-PM-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-17-at-7.34.08-PM.png 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kindergarten students in Ms. Dunkum&#8217;s class at Davis Elementary have been learning how to measure and compare objects using nonstandard units (K.10) so today we practiced those skills using digital tools.  I tried this lesson with another class previously where they found a picture of an object online and measured it using shapes in Keynote, however, it took too long to get the picture, and we didn&#8217;t have time to write the unit of measurement. So many students ended up saying &#8220;inches&#8221; or &#8220;feet&#8221; even though we weren&#8217;t using those units. You can see a couple of those student examples here: <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure\/Belladonna.mov\">Belladona<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure\/JR.mov\">JR<\/a>. Since I wanted them to have time to  include the correct unit of measurement in their presentation, I decided to give the students a quicker way to make a variable picture.  I gave them some shapes and told them to build a snowman out of them. You can download the template by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure.zip\">here<\/a>. Next the students selected a shape from the Shapes tool and measured their snowmen with the shapes.  Last, they added a text box with the nonstandard unit of measurement such as &#8220;5 stars&#8221; or &#8220;4 triangles.&#8221; I showed them how to add animated builds to the shapes and text box, and then they recorded a voiceover narration.  Here are some student examples: <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure\/Mackenzie.mov\">Mackenzie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure\/Ryan.mov\">Ryan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.henrico.k12.va.us\/staffdev\/clough_d\/ITRTFiles\/45Spring2014\/KMeasure\/Wyatt.mov\">Wyatt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten students in Ms. Dunkum&#8217;s class at Davis Elementary have been learning how to measure and compare objects using nonstandard units (K.10) so today we practiced those skills using digital tools. I tried this lesson with another class previously where they found a picture of an object online and measured it using shapes in Keynote,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1915\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindergarten","category-math","tag-keynote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}