I'm always looking for fun new things to do with my students. In a math professional development meeting the other day, they shared a bunch of sites that have some cool activities on it. I found this one called "The Celebrated Frog." There was a short story (that wasn't so short) that went along with it. I was short on time so I didn't read it to my kids. The original activity was designed for a statistics and probability lesson to find mean, median, mode, and range with each group's numbers and then the classes' numbers. However, when I saw that it involved measurement and I had measurement conversion lesson coming up, I adapted it!
I was out 2 days last week for a conference and left a measurement web quest for students to complete while I was gone. I wanted them to have some kind of introduction to measurement before I left so they weren't walking into the web quest blind. We did a quick lesson on converting measurements in the metric system. They do this in elementary school so it was a review for most of them.
Then, I divided them up into groups and we did the activity.
To limit chaos, I slid all of my desks back and taped off the floor into sections. Each group had to stay in their square.
Everyone in the group got a jumping frog. They had to jump or hop their frog three times and record the distance in centimeters each time.
They also recorded their group's data on their chart.
Then, they had to convert their measurements within the metric system and decide which measurement was best for this type of distance.
They had a blast hopping frogs. They would have just played with them whole time if I had let them.
Overall, they did well with the conversions and the chaos was kept to a minimum!
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