Grade 4 Lesson plan
Coldwick Hatchery Raceways: Adding Eighths of a Foot of Water
A grade 4 lesson at a fictional fish hatchery where students add and subtract eighths of a foot to keep four concrete raceways at their correct water depth.
Common Core Math · Grade 4
4.MD.A.2 Solve multistep measurement and money word problems
Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students work through a family's monthly water bill, combining a flat fee in dollars with a per-gallon charge given in tenths, to find the total amount owed. Blending money, decimals, and volume in one problem mirrors exactly how a real water bill is calculated.
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23 materials aligned to 4.MD.A.2
Lesson plans
Grade 4 Lesson plan
A Day With Elmgate's Water Sampler: Measurement Math on the Route
A 50-minute grade 4 careers lesson where students act as a water sampling technician and solve measurement problems with milliliters, liters, and time.
Grade 4 Lesson plan
Why the Munstock Wells Ran Low: Comparing Three Fixes
A grade 4 science lesson in which students use a fictional town's daily well budget to compare three ways of closing a summer groundwater shortfall.
Grade 4 Lesson plan
Placing Bellwood's New Water Tower: A Topographic Map Lesson
A grade 4 lesson where students read an elevation table standing in for a topographic map of the fictional town of Bellwood and find elevation differences.
Worksheets
Grade 4 Worksheet
Measuring How Far the Pennard Brook Bank Moved
A grade 4 worksheet using a year of post-to-bank measurements at three bends of a fictional brook, with subtraction items comparing erosion, cover, and deposition.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Reading the Route: A Hollyhock Water Meter Technician Worksheet
A grade 4 careers worksheet where students act as a water meter technician, subtract meter readings to find gallons used, and solve related word problems.
Grade 4 Worksheet
The Delaney Family Water Bill in Kilgore: Gallons and Dollars
A grade 4 worksheet on a fictional town's monthly water bill, where students find the gallons used and check the service fee, use charge, and total.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Duncastle Dam Fish Ladder: Counting Fish and Shift Minutes
A grade 4 worksheet at a fictional dam's fish ladder, where students find elapsed shift minutes, walking distances, and fish counts, then interpret a remainder.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Sycamore Flats Water Tower: A Gallons-to-Quarts Worksheet
A grade 4 worksheet at a fictional hilltop water tower where students convert gallons to quarts and cups, convert hours to minutes, and solve measurement word problems.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Tracing Runoff with the Mirebeck Ridge Elevation Table
A grade 4 science worksheet where students read an elevation table for a fictional ridge, decide which creek each point drains to, and subtract to find the drop.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Reading the Torbeck Reservoir Depth Log in a Dry Month
A grade 4 science worksheet using a fictional reservoir's five weekly depth readings to find drops in inches, convert to feet, and explain where the missing water went.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Planning Tanager's Water Tower Mural: A Grid Math Worksheet
A grade 4 art-math worksheet where students size a water tower mural from a design grid, converting units and figuring paint, cost, and painting time.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Logging Water at the Ashcombe Treatment Plant: A Conversion Worksheet
A grade 4 worksheet converting liters to milliliters and hours to minutes in a fictional treatment plant's daily logbook.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Millbrook Elementary's Water Cooler: Gallons, Quarts, and Cups
A grade 4 worksheet where students convert a fictional school water cooler's gallons to quarts and cups, then solve word problems about refilling it and its reserve.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Sable Creek's Puddle Watch: Decimal Depths After a Storm
A grade 4 worksheet where a fictional after-school club measures schoolyard puddle depths in tenths of an inch, writing decimals and subtracting to compare locations.
Grade 4 Worksheet
The Ortiz Family Reads Their Water Report and Tracks Hydration
A grade 4 health worksheet where a fictional family reads their water quality report and calculates weekly hydration totals, building consumer and measurement skills.
Math problem sets
Grade 4 Math problem set
Erosion Rates from Sedgeholt School's Four Slope Trays
Nine grade 4 problems using a four-tray erosion test record, turning grams of washed-out soil into rates per minute and comparing trays that differ only in slope.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Stony Gap Dam Operator: Multiplication, Division, and Time Problems
A grade 4 math problem set following a dam operator who controls a reservoir gate, using multiplication, division, and time to find gallons of water.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Hadley Water Bills: Money, Gallons, and Rounding
A grade 4 problem set: students work out fictional Hadley water bills from a flat fee and a charge per 1,000 gallons, then round the yearly totals.
Labs & experiments
Grade 4 Lab / experiment
Claypool School's Drain Slope: A Sand-and-Water Fair Test
A grade 4 lab where groups tilt a foil channel to three heights, time the water, and measure the sand left behind to find the slope that carries grit away.
Classroom activities
Grade 4 Classroom activity
Marlbeck Ridge Runoff Trays: Measuring How Far Water Travels
A grade 4 activity where teams build a foil ridge in a tray, pour water down both slopes, and measure the runoff distance in centimeters and millimeters.
Grade 4 Classroom activity
Vellacourt Elementary's Leak Patrol: Timing Drips at School
A grade 4 station activity where teams count drips for one minute, time a cup filling, and convert minutes to seconds to size up a school's slow leaks.
Grade 4 Classroom activity
Rushlight Creek Sampling Route: A Six-Station Rotation
A grade 4 activity where teams rotate through six creek sampling stations, then use a printed site log to total bottles and minutes and pack coolers.