For my RWT unit, I will be doing a measurement Olympics; this will be a 4 to 5 lesson unit. Before the Olympics part can occur I will teach a series of lessons to ensure the students have the necessary prerequisite skills to complete the Olympic-like tasks. These lessons will include measurement using rulers (metric and standard) and measurement of liquids (both standard and metric). The third lesson will be about conversions among similar units (inches to feet, centimeters to meters). On the fourth day, the students will be paired with a partner and travel to the different events. The students will do things like measure the width of their partner’s smiles, a sponge squeeze with water, broad jump, etc. There will be several sets of partners at each event and each event will have a winner. Each win will equate to a certain number of points for those partners and then there will be winners at the end according to the number of points they earned and medals will be awarded. This would work great if there could be more than just one class involved in this event and it would be awesome to get the entire school involved by including an "opening" and "closing" ceremony to make it as close to the real Olympics as possible. It's a great way to get kids interested in math and it gives them a means to an end with measurement.