Metric units and using instruments: Year 6 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Metric units and using instruments. Students make connections between the metric system and decimals. The metric system is linked to the base 10 number system, in that each unit is a power of 10. The base unit represents 100 = 1 and the other units grow or decrease by powers (factors) of 10.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6M01 Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P8)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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