A slice of measurement for the Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 22.
One of my favourite topics in math is measurement. There are just so many fun things to do using non-standard and standard units.
Instead of doing everything that’s planned for today, students were given the time to finish their Easter egg symmetry and math measurement activity that they started working on yesterday.
Before they headed off to Music at the end of the day, we read a short story titled, Measurement Day. It’s about the different activities that students brainstormed that they can do on Measurement Day in the gym. One of them was Blowing Feather. They were all ears while I was reading the story. Why not do one of them?
There was no feather in the classroom but crepe papers. I cut a small piece from each colour: green, purple, pink, fuchsia. The class was divided into 4 groups of 4. Two metre sticks were laid on the carpet as starting point. The distance of each paper will be measured from the starting point to where it will land using a ruler (cm). One member from each group every turn. 1, 2, 3, Blow!
It’s a spur of the moment simple math activity and yet, students were so engaged during the learning process. Who would have thought?
An (Almost) Connected Educator 
How can you not love when the learning happens through unexpected activities
So true. The beauty of teaching is the flexibility. We don’t have to stick with the plan. Do what we think is best for the students.
What fun. What learning. And so easy. You might like my marshmallow cannon–that’s what the kids dubbed it. http://www.alicenine.net/marshmallow-cannon/
Thank you for sharing the Marshmallow Cannon activity!
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