Look and Measure

Describe objects by color, shape, and length.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 22

Everything around you is made of matter. Scientists describe matter by its properties: things you can observe or measure.
Some properties you can see: color and shape. This basketball is orange, and it's round.
Length tells how long something is. Use a ruler, and start the end of the object at 0. This pencil is 7 inches long.
Words like red, round, and long each describe a property: color, shape, and length.
Your turn! Sort these words: do they describe color, or shape?

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S2P1.a — Ask questions to describe and classify different objects according to their physical properties. (Examples of physical properties could include color, mass, length, texture, hardness, strength, absorbency, and flexibility.)