Let's Use a Ruler Year 2 KS1 Maths Planning by PlanBee

Let’s Use a Ruler

Teach your class how to measure with a ruler, including estimating, comparing and measuring to the nearest unit.

PlanBee Let's Use a Ruler Year 2 KS1 Maths Planning by PlanBee

What You Get

This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.

Each of the lessons within the pack contains:

An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
An assessment grid to track learning and progress

Curriculum Coverage

Year 2 Maths Objectives

Measurement

choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

Teacher Benefits

Save time and simplify your Maths planning
With every lesson clearly sequenced and ready to teach, our Maths schemes take the stress out of planning and ensure smooth progression from one objective to the next.
Ensure National Curriculum coverage
Each unit in our Year 2 Maths curriculum has been carefully designed to meet National Curriculum objectives, giving you complete confidence that every skill and concept is taught and revisited.
Support for every teacher, every class
Clear explanations and built-in differentiation make our Maths lessons easy to deliver for ECTs and experienced teachers alike, supporting adaptive teaching across a range of abilities.
Build confidence and fluency for all pupils
From reasoning and problem-solving to fluency practice, each lesson helps children develop mathematical understanding in engaging, hands-on ways that make learning stick.

£5.00

SKU: M2CS40300

Aimed at: Key Stage 1 | Year 2

Title: The Complete Series (5 lessons)

The Complete Series (5 lessons) Lesson 1: Longer or Shorter? Lesson 2: How do we measure using a ruler? Lesson 3: Measuring to the nearest centimetre Lesson 4: Using <, > and = Lesson 5: What equipment should we use?

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What You Get

This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.

Each of the lessons within the pack contains:

An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
An assessment grid to track learning and progress

Curriculum Coverage

Year 2 Maths Objectives

Measurement

choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

Teacher Benefits

Save time and simplify your Maths planning
With every lesson clearly sequenced and ready to teach, our Maths schemes take the stress out of planning and ensure smooth progression from one objective to the next.
Ensure National Curriculum coverage
Each unit in our Year 2 Maths curriculum has been carefully designed to meet National Curriculum objectives, giving you complete confidence that every skill and concept is taught and revisited.
Support for every teacher, every class
Clear explanations and built-in differentiation make our Maths lessons easy to deliver for ECTs and experienced teachers alike, supporting adaptive teaching across a range of abilities.
Build confidence and fluency for all pupils
From reasoning and problem-solving to fluency practice, each lesson helps children develop mathematical understanding in engaging, hands-on ways that make learning stick.

Let’s Use a Ruler

£5.00

Teach your class the key skills when measuring length using rulers, including estimating, comparing and measuring to the nearest unit of measure.

The included lesson plans, slides and printable resources will help you guide your class through the process of using a ruler to measure in different ways. Each of these five lessons come with differentiated activity ideas as well as an alternative activity.

Lesson 1

Longer or Shorter?

Teach your class to being to estimate and compare different lengths whilst familiarising them with the lengths of 30 cm and 1 m. Have your children begin to explore using rulers by comparing different objects to them. Can your more confident children begin to estimate the lengths of various objects?

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Photo sheet
Metre monster templates

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Lesson 2

How do we measure using a ruler?

Introduce your class to the method of using a ruler to measure. This lesson helps your children become experts in measuring with a ruler by asking them to think of tips they would give to others. They practise their measuring and have the opportunity to apply this understanding to draw lines of a specified length and measure curved lines using string.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Photo sheet
Game cards

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Lesson 3

Measuring to the nearest centimetre

Challenge your class to measure classroom objects using their understanding of how to use a ruler to measure length. Teach them how to record a measurement that does not line up with the cm markers exactly and how to measure trickier objects. Have the children estimate the lengths of objects and check their estimations.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Number cards
Differentiated worksheets
Photo sheet

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Lesson 4

Using <, > and =

Revisit the comparison symbols of and = and have your class use them to compare the different lengths and measurements of different objects. Encourage your children to read out the comparison sentences they create to consolidate their understanding of these symbols.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
1 to 20 flashcards
Symbol cards
Differentiated worksheets
Photo sheet

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Lesson 5

What equipment should we use?

Introduce different pieces of measuring equipment to your class, including trundle wheels and tape measures. Investigate their uses and what sort of objects and distances they would be used to measure. Challenge your class to pick the most suitable piece of equipment to use when measuring different objects in the playground.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Challenge cards
Photo sheet
Game board
Game cards

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Let’s Use a Ruler

Teach your class how to measure with a ruler, including estimating, comparing and measuring to the nearest unit.

What You Get

Curriculum Coverage

Teacher Benefits

What You Get

Curriculum Coverage

Teacher Benefits

Let’s Use a Ruler

Longer or Shorter?

What's included:

How do we measure using a ruler?

What's included:

Measuring to the nearest centimetre

What's included:

Using <, > and =

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What equipment should we use?

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