SOL: Measurement - Meet Jack the builder. He lives in a country that only uses the Metric System. Can your students help Jack? He gets terribly confused with measuring. Begin with a discussion on the metric "Unit of Measurement" to help students understand the terminology. When this is complete, students help Jack read the actual measurements in the activity. Be careful though, this site uses the French language spelling since it is from Canada.
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