Ioan and Finn discovered that some frogs can jump 55 times their length. That is the equivalent of a grown man jumping the length of a football field. They wanted to measure how far they can jump.
Resources
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- Frog toys
Method
We walked to the park to work on some frog jumps.
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Ioan went first. He did a frog jump, starting from the stick. Then he put a frog by his heel.
Finn went next, then we compared their jumps.
They used the tape measure to measure their jumps. Ioan had jumped 77cm and Finn 76cm.
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Cian enjoyed spinning the dial of the tape measure around, then took it for a walk.
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We encouraged Cian to jump, but he wasn’t interested. Until he got on to the bridge below, then intentionally jumped off it, falling head first into the nettles.
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Numeracy Year 1 programme of study
Number – measurements
- compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights [for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half]
- measure and begin to record lengths and heights
Pupils move from using and comparing different types of quantities and measures using non-standard units, including discrete (for example, counting) measurement, to using manageable common standard units. In order to become familiar with standard measures, pupils begin to use measuring tools such as a ruler.