Grade 5 Lesson plan
The Danner Family's Three-Day Emergency Water Supply
A grade 5 consumer lesson in which students plan a fictional family's three-day emergency water supply, converting quarts to gallons and working with decimals.
Common Core Math · Grade 5
5.MD.A.1 Convert measurement units and solve multi-step problems
Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students convert a rainfall total from centimeters to meters, or a lab volume from milliliters to liters, then use that converted value inside a larger multi-step water-budget problem. Chaining a unit conversion into a bigger calculation is the exact scaffold for the multi-step conversion chains operators use on certification exams.
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13 materials aligned to 5.MD.A.1
Lesson plans
Worksheets
Grade 5 Worksheet
Bottle Labels for the Fernwick Field Trip: Milliliters to Liters
A grade 5 worksheet in which students convert bottle labels from milliliters to liters and back while planning drinking water for a fictional class field trip.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Bellhollow Fen Storm Ditch: A Grade 5 Metric Conversion Worksheet
A grade 5 worksheet converting millimeters, centimeters, meters, and milliliters using a fictional nature preserve's rain records and grass drainage ditch.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Halstead Water Plant Log: A Grade 5 Unit Conversion Worksheet
A grade 5 worksheet where students convert liters, milliliters, hours, and minutes from a fictional water plant's pump log and compare tank sizes with decimals.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Hazelmoor's Rain Garden Test Kit: A Grade 5 Unit Conversion Worksheet
A grade 5 worksheet converting cups, quarts, and gallons of captured rain-garden runoff, then using decimal multiplication to total a week of samples.
Math problem sets
Grade 5 Math problem set
Bramcote Water Works Leak List: A Grade 5 Repair Choice Set
Ten grade 5 problems converting quarts and pints to gallons so a fictional town's crew can rank three leaks and assign its one long-lasting repair.
Grade 5 Math problem set
Thornbury Booster Pump: A Grade 5 Metric Conversion Set
Grade 5 students convert between milliliters and liters and between centimeters and meters in multi-step problems at a fictional water pump station.
Grade 5 Math problem set
Riverbend Farm's New Drip Line: A Grade 5 Conversion Problem Set
An 8-problem grade 5 set where students compute roof runoff at a fictional farm, convert gallons to quarts, and use a fill rate to plan a new drip irrigation line.
Classroom activities
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Hallamby Water Fair Trade-Up: A Grade 5 Capacity Activity
A grade 5 trading game at a fictional town's water fair where teams exchange cup cards for pints, quarts, and gallons, then convert hose lengths as well.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Rinse and Refill at Hollybrook: A Water Bottle Cleaning Rotation
A grade 5 four-station rotation on cleaning reusable water bottles, in which students inspect bottle parts and measure their rinse water in cups and quarts.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Creek Cleanup Conversion Relay: A Grade 5 Measurement Station Game
A grade 5 movement relay where teams convert cups to pints, pints to quarts, and quarts to gallons to log a fictional creek cleanup's debris total.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 5 Quiz & test questions
Culverdale Pump House: A Grade 5 Measurement and Volume Quiz
A 20-point grade 5 quiz mixing multiple-choice, computation, and short-answer items on volume, metric conversion, and decimals at a fictional village pump house.
Graphic organizers
Grade 5 Graphic organizer
Before, During, and After Practice: A Marbury Hydration Plan
A grade 5 three-row planning organizer for drinking water before, during, and after practice, with a cups-to-quarts total and a filled exemplar from a fictional club.