Metric units and using instruments: Year 3 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 3 is for the topic of Metric units and using instruments. Students develop understanding and use of metric units to estimate, measure, order and compare objects according to their length, mass and capacity.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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