As part of our Extreme Earth topic, Primary Six have been learning about Volcanoes. Throughout our lessons, we have had the opportunity to explore a variety of famous volcanoes and delve into their statistics, such as their heights. To help us grasp these measurements more concretely, we decided to compare the heights of these volcanoes against well-known landmarks and buildings, both locally and from afar.
Our first task involved ranking these landmarks from tallest to shortest, which provided great excitement and teamwork within the class. Each group had had a great time reaching their final order, with some friendly debates that even required a few rounds of ‘rock, paper, scissors’ to come to a final agreement!
Then, to deepen our understanding, we partnered up to research each landmark's actual height in metres.
Once we had all the heights, we worked with our Busy Buddy and created tables on the computer to display this valuable information clearly. This culminated in an engaging activity where the boys and girls calculated how many of their chosen volcanoes would equal each landmark’s height. With the use of calculators we applied our knowledge of rounding decimals to the nearest whole number in the process.
