Need high quality, No Prep 3rd Grade Area and Perimeter, Elapsed Time, Capacity and Weight Activities? You will love this set of Math Journal Prompts that encourage deep thinking and help you collect data on student learning. Students will enjoy drawing and writing about how to find area and perimeter, how to solve elapsed time problems, selecting between units to measure capacity and weight and much more!

These journal prompts give students an opportunity to think deeply about concepts covered in 3rd grade measurement.

I absolutely love using math journals in the classroom! They are the perfect way to engage students in deep thinking and assess their understanding. Math journal prompts are naturally differentiated, as students are able to dive as deep into content as they are able to.

What's Included:

• 19 Journal Prompts
• Elapsed Time Rulers and Blank Clocks to use with elapsed time journal prompts
• 9 Full page Journal Prompt Responses that can be used as examples at a math station.
• Teaching Tips for using the journal prompts

Great ways to use these journal prompts:

• No-Prep Math Station
• Homework (that isn't busy work)
• Guide a Small Group Lesson
• Tutoring Sessions
• Review
• Collect Qualitative Data for Parent-Teacher Conferences or PLC and RTI Meetings

Topics include:

• Find the Missing Side Perimeter Problems
• Perimeter of Rectangles and other Polygons
• Area of Rectangles using unit squares
• Area of Composite Figures
• Relationship between Perimeter and Area
• Elapsed Time Problems
• Determine when to use measurements of Capacity or Weight
• Find the Weight of Objects

TEKS Alignment:

3.6C: Determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row.

3.6D: Decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into non‐overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of area.

3.7B: Determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems.

3.7C: Determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes using pictorial models or tools such as a 15‐minute event plus a 30‐minute event equals 45 minutes.

3.7D: Determine when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume (capacity) or weight.

3.7E: Determine liquid volume (capacity) or weight using appropriate units and tools.