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Show on a big screenYou measure a desk with your hand span. A hand span is the width of your open hand. A friend gets a different number.
This track follows your book's Chapter 5, Measurement of Length and Motion.
What you will do
- Measure with a unit everyone shares.
- Pick the right unit: millimetre, centimetre, metre or kilometre.
- Read a ruler from two marks.
- Measure a curve with a thread.
- Find out if something has moved.
- Name the shape of a path.
Try each idea with your hands first.