Students discuss differences between measuring tools. Students generate a list or draw pictures on tagboard to chart the ideas gathered in interviews. Children analyze each idea, considering available materials, help needed, play value for children. Students vote on ideas using stickers. Teachers can vote too.
Students observe which two ideas had the most votes.
Students read the results of voting from the computer graph and plan how to build and decorate cardboard buildings. Children and parents come to school for one evening to build cardboard buildings. Children are responsible for helping with measurement tasks and selecting most appropriate size and strength boxes for buildings. Students will view slide show of box project and retell the sequence of the project to parents. Students will complete cardboard strength experiment and measurement activity in order to predict which boxes will be big and strong enough to become buildings.