PRIMARY COIL
  • Ideas
    • Physics in a Primary classroom.
    • Electricity in a Montessori Classroom
    • Supporting Ideas >
      • Design
      • Language
      • Sticks and Ticks, Space and Time
      • Three Part Equations
      • Particles and Waves
      • Enhanced Measurement
  • Eight Energies
    • Electricity and Magnetism Curriculum Flowchart
    • Electricity >
      • Balance Bird: Static, Acrylic >
        • Origami Birds, downloadable
      • Electric Motor
      • Electrolizer
      • Vocabulary, Gestures
      • Circuits
      • Plasma Ball, AC Tester
      • Generator
    • Magnetism >
      • Magnetic Pendulum
      • Magnet Bouncer
      • Magnet Stacker
      • Electromagnet
      • Ellipsoid Field Game
      • Materials
      • Eddy Current Tubes
    • Light >
      • Sources and Light Stage
      • Spectrum
      • Mirrors and Fibers
      • Lenses
      • Filters and Films
      • Light and Electricity
    • Sound >
      • Sperical Bells
      • Strings, Rods and Reeds
      • Flexible Tubes, PVC, Tubular Bells
      • Reeds, Plates and Membranes
      • Bowls and Bells
      • Complex Shapes
      • Sound and Electricity
Measurement is the use of the senses to quantify something in the environment. Enhanced measurement is the use of a device to quantify something beyond the senses. Like a thermometer.
During the years the Child learns to count and read numbers
she needs to have things to count, things numbers describe:
bead chains, number rods, blocks, knives, forks and spoons, batteries, teeth on a gear, nuts and bolts. She needs devices that generate numbers for those realities, that measure: rulers, scales and clocks which are all already present in every primary classroom. She also needs devices that indicate and measure energy. Below are readily available, inexpensive examples that that present a summary of the curriculum in a series of tools that are well within the child's capabilities to learn to use. Some are electronic. Some are mechanical. Some the child can actually build from the electric circuit set. Review these items here or browse Measurement  in The Physics Shop.


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