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How close, how far?
This lesson provides an authentic context to develop skills of estimation and measuring length.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Assessment advice
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement Mass and capacity
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P8)
- Publisher
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority
- Copyright
- © 2021 Civil Aviation Safety Authority Australia. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0
- Other terms
- drones
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