“Hey kids! Let’s have a scavenger hunt!”
“Yea!”, “I love scavenger hunts!”
“This is going to be a measuring scavenger hunt. Okay?”
“Okay”, “Cool”
So I handed them a sheet with the following and gave a little basic instruction on what they were looking for.
FIND SOMETHING THAT IS:
1 – 3 INCHES _____________________
5 – 10 INCHES _____________________
10 – 15 INCHES _____________________
15 – 20 INCHES _____________________
20 – 30 INCHES _____________________
30 – 40 INCHES _____________________
40 – 50 INCHES _____________________
50 – 60 INCHES _____________________
She was to write in what they found and he was to take a picture. They were over halfway finished and all was going well until he decided to be a typical boy and swing the camera like a lasso over his head and she decided to react like a typical big sister and tell him to stop. It pretty much deteriorated from there.
Still, I maintain that in some ideal world this could work.
*updated to add a couple of pictures that survived the carnage
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Genius! I am definitely going to do this with my 9yo.
Or a money one in the grocery store….
Hmm, you’ve got my mind turning! Thanks!
This is a great idea! Julia would love something like this.
Okay… we are totally doing this! Love it! Once Selah is finished writing (well… now she’s illustrating) her story for the PBS writing contest, we will have fun with this math activity. Fun! Fun!