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Activity Two – Blue Whale
How big is a blue whale?
What you will need:
- One 30 m length of rope or string
- A measuring tape
- 8 different colour markers or 8 paper tags that can be attached to the rope
- A roll of brown paper
- Pencils
- Whale ID Fact Sheets or use the web site: wwww????
Let's get started!
You will need a lot of space for this activity, preferably an outdoor space, the school gymnasium, or even a long hallway.
- Use the measuring tape to measure the lengths of each whale on the rope as stated on the Whale ID fact sheet
- Mark the lengths on the rope or string using a different colored marker or tag to indicate the length of each whale
- Make a paper key to go with the rope that lists each of the whales, the colour or tag associated with them, and the length of the whale
- Find other objects in the school to measure and compare to the size of the whales. Add them to the rope and to the paper key.
- Share the project with other classes.
- Have two students unroll the whale rope, stopping at each marker. Have other students guess what whale is as long as the unrolled rope at each marker.
Talk about it!
- What is good about being big?
- What is good about being small?
- What are the challenges of being big?
- What are the challenges of being small?
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