Title of Book:



Title of Book: Mapping Penny's World

Author: Loreen Leedy

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company/2000

ISBN: 0-8050-6178-9

Grade Levels for Recommended Use: Third Grade

TEKS: (3.11) Measurement. The student selects and uses appropriate units and procedures to measure length and area. The student is expected to:

(A) estimate and measure lengths using standard units such as inch, foot, yard, centimeter, decimeter, and meter;

Brief Summary: Mapping Penny's World is about a young girl named Lisa and her Boston terrier Penny. Lisa begins to make various maps of places from a simple layout of her room to a bike route for her and Penny. Lisa creates a key for each map layout and measurement scales. In the end, Lisa decides to travel to a few places Penny can go and makes sure that Penny brings the maps.

Materials needed:

Art paper or legal size paper, rulers, and pencils

Suggested Activity: Measure Lisa's Bedroom

Measurement

1. Launching the Lesson

1) Read the book Mapping Penny's World. Instruct students to look for the different ways Lisa measured for her maps.

2) Have students retell some of the ways Lisa measured on her maps. Talk about the kinds of units used in the scales.

2. Developing the Lesson

1) Set up in the back of the room items the students can measure that might be found in Lisa's bedroom. Example: A plant, six chairs placed together in the form of a small bed, a small rug, stuffed animals, a pillow, the door of the classroom, a stool, or any other object you feel can be utilized for measurement.

2) The items should be placed similar to the pages in the book displaying Lisa's bedroom.

3) Explain to the students that one ruler will equal 12 inches. (1 ruler=12 inches) Then explain with the ruler as a visual that (12 inches=1 foot.)

4) The students should take their sheet of paper and title it Lisa's Bedroom by (The student's name).

5) The students will only need a pencil and a ruler for their bedroom layout drawing.

6) The teacher should use the maps in the book to show how feet can be recorded as a smaller unit in a scale drawing. Examples (1 unit= 1 foot.) In their drawings, the unit will be centimeters were (1 centimeter=1 foot/the length of one ruler).

7) Before the students start the measuring exercise, explain to them how you want the estimating done. For instance, if the object takes MORE than, and NOT LESS than half/6 inches of the ruler, count the full 12in/1 foot. If an object is LESS than or EQUAL to half a ruler/6 inches DO NOT include a full foot. Explain to the students that this a form of estimating/rounding.

8) The student will ONLY be measuring length and width looking down on the objects NOT height.

9) The student should take their sheet of paper with them and write their calculations/measurements of each object on the backside.

10) Teachers should remind students to draw their objects to scale and place an indicator of how they scaled their drawing in the bottom right hand corner of their layout.

11) The students should label the objects in their bedroom.

12) Finally, when the students have measured and created their scale drawings, the teacher should have the students lay their pictures on their desk and do a picture walk. This allows the students to circulate around the room observing each others' work.

3. Closure/Discussion/Elaboration

1) Students discuss their measurements with the class. The class is able to ask questions.

2) In conclusion, remind students that everything is measurable and that sometimes it is important to lay everything out in a scale drawing.

Extra Activities for Homework:

This book can be used as a source or in classroom instruction, but is not necessary to assign this homework activity.

Book: Measuring Penny

Author: Loreen Leedy

Publisher: Henry Holt

Publication Date: 1997

Pages: 32 pages

Grades: K-3

ISBN: 0-8050-5360-3

Resource:

Measuring Penny Coloring page:

Homework Activity:

1. Lesson Activity

1) Tell the student their assignment is also to measure something in as many ways as possible and be creative! The measuring should be done at home. Use the class time to brainstorm things that you could measure. You may want measure more than one thing. Once they have picked an item they need to list all the ways they could measure the item at home.

2) Students may have really great ideas of their own! I left this time for them to clear ideas they had with me.

2. Closure/Discussion/Elaboration

3) Students should share their measurements with the class. The class will be able to ask questions.

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Adapted by Kylee Bible, 2010

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