Learn typical scale of resistance units.
Metals are generally good at conducting electricity; they have low resistance. Common insulators (including air) have a resistance high enough it can’t be easily measured. So the most basic resistance measurement is the ‘continuity check’ which simply tests whether the resistance is low enough to be considered a conductor, or whether it is unexpectedly high representing an open circuit.
Typical resistance measurements along a short wire will be less than 1 ohm and are often dominated by the resistance of the contact point and probe wires. Component resistors are available in standard ranges from a fraction of an ohm to tens of millions of ohms. For our typical sensor circuits we will be using resistors in the 100 to 10000 (10K) ohm range.