Length of a 1m Turtle

Launch:

Have children write their names of a piece of paper. Put the class names in order of shortest to longest.

Explore:

An average turtle is 1m.

Use equipment in the room to measure how long a metre is. What was the best unit to measure?

Enabling Prompts: Have units out for the kids to use.

Extending Prompts: If a unifix is 1cm. How many unifix do I need to make 1m? How many groups of ten would I need? How many groups of 5? What if my unifix was 2cm long? or 5cm long?