Year 3 Measurement Unit | Metric Units, Length, Mass and Capacity

Teach Year 3 students to make sense of metric measurement with a complete unit on choosing appropriate units, estimating, measuring, comparing and ordering length, mass and capacity. This ready-to-teach mathematics resource includes explicit instruction, hands-on activities, student worksheets, a board game, assessment and rubric.

Aligned with Australian Curriculum v9.0 code AC9M3M01, the unit supports whole-class lessons, maths groups, centres, independent practice and assessment.

What's Included

• An editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• An editable PowerPoint quiz
• The Metric Measurement at a Glance classroom display
• Four hands-on activities: Length Scavenger Hunt; Mass and Capacity Scavenger Hunt; Estimate, Measure, Compare Stations; and Metric Unit Sort Cards
• The Measurement Mission board game and task cards
• Nine student worksheets covering units, tools, ruler reading, estimation, mass, capacity, conversions, ordering and problem solving
• The Classroom Measurement Challenge assessment
• Answer pages and suggested responses
• A five-level marking rubric
• A final unit plan PDF

Learning Focus

• Choose sensible metric units for everyday objects
• Match measurement tasks with appropriate tools
• Read rulers and simple scales
• Estimate before measuring
• Compare and order measurements
• Convert small metric steps, including metres to centimetres and kilograms to grams
• Explain measurement reasoning in problem-solving contexts

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching, the display for classroom reference, the activities and game for hands-on practice, the worksheets for consolidation, and the assessment and rubric as a clear evidence point.

This is a digital resource supplied in PDF and editable PowerPoint formats and licensed for single-classroom use. No physical product will be shipped.