Sometimes students struggle with understanding where data should go on a table. The attached cards have a date or a date and a measurement. Students should learn that the units are important because it shows us what measurement it is and that we can't just put the data anywhere. If we take data on a Friday, it shouldn't go on Wednesday's row. This game helps students learn about recording data and the importance of units. The curriculum download is the PDF lesson plan for this activity. The supporting file is the data table and cards with a date or a date and a measurement in PDF format.
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I tried teaching this as a class lesson where each student would get a card and we would go around the room to discuss where each card should go. This allowed a lot of students to goof around. A better approach that I tried later was to give each student a card, but have them be responsible for placing it on the board and also explain why they put it there. The students did more of a matching game since they didn’t connect that the units provided were just that: units of the thing being measured. Going through the units beforehand (using units for length, weight, time, etc. as examples, too) may have helped a lot. While I’m not sure that they grasped that the units show what is being measured, they did understand that if something is not measured on a given date, we can’t fill in that space. Perhaps putting students in small groups and giving them a few cards of the whole set to put on the board would help. Then they could work together to figure out where it would go and why.