A Whale of a Tail!
Posted by Faith BarbutoIn our kindergarten science studies we have been learning about the mammal animal group and our math topic is measurement, so we wove the two concepts together with a big job, measuring the largest animal to ever live: the blue whale. I asked the class to bring a whale in but did not have any volunteers so we had to make do with a paper version! We learned that a blue whale can be up to 90 feet long, but just how long is that? Since it was longer than any of our class rulers, we decided to mark the measurement with an more unconventional tool, our arms! First we measured a student to determine that the standard arm span of a kindergartener was about 3 feet. Since we have 10 students we multiplied to find that the arm span of the whole class was about 30 feet. Using these calculations, we estimated that it would take 3 lines of our class to get up to 90 feet. Armed with this mathematical information we headed outside to a big space for our measuring. First marking our starting point with a whale tail, we carefully stretched ourselves out 3 times. Once we reached the end we added a whale head and all stood back to observe just how big the biggest animal is.
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