Flower Length Measurement Bilingual Activities

Flower length measurement bilingual activities can involve different types of materials. You can easily use craft sticks, interlocking manipulatives, and clips.

Similarly, your bilingual learners can grasp between longer, taller, shorter, or smaller concepts by using everyday items or household items. Bilingual learners begin to understand measurement when they engage with materials and make distinctions between lengths. 

Flower Length Measurement Ideas

The spring season is a wonderful time to encourage projects such as length measurement. Of course, you can easily use manipulatives to make comparisons. However, you can also add other materials like paper rolls to investigate different lengths. 

Materials:

• Empty paper towel rolls (3)
• Green water-based finger-paint or acrylic paint
• Paintbrushes
• Flower and leaves templates 
• Crayons or markers
• Clothespins
• Ruler
• Safety scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

1. Gather 3 empty paper towel rolls
2. Cut the first paper towel roll in half and set it aside
3. Next, cut the second paper towel roll in thirds and set it aside
4. Cut the third paper towel roll into small pieces
5. Paint each piece green to represent the stem of the flowers
6. Allow the paint to dry overnight or several hours
7. Make different task cards of measurement based on your paper towel roll cuts
8. Build a flower by pasting the flower and leaves onto a clothespin
9. Use the various lengths to make comparisons

How to Teach Length Measurement

When teaching measurement, your bilingual learners may already know how long or short items are. But, you can help them observe other aspects of length too.

Length measurement makes use of prior knowledge to make comparisons. For instance, your bilingual students can compare between taller and shorter or between longer and shorter.

Creating various situations of length measurement helps students later understand dimensional measurement. Furthermore, you might consider using a ruler to describe length.

However, a ruler at this point may not be meaningful. Young learners need to experience how length varies before understanding how to measure. That is, use simple items so that they can explore length variations.

They connect what they experience in everyday life and various lengths of familiar objects. 

In conclusion, discussing length measurement entails observing how length varies in everyday life. For example, the flower length measurement bilingual activities help students interact with different sizes.

As they become confident with various lengths, bilingual students can differentiate between long, short, or tall. After that, you can add other measurements like volume and weight.