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Body Measurement Activities
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Body Measurement Activities
Use your own handspan, foot length and steps to measure. If you cannot measure an object right now, estimate and explain how you would check. Body measurements can differ from person to person.
Choose and compare
Think about which body measurements are useful and why.
1.Mei is helping at a vet clinic. She wants to measure the length of a puppy's back. Which body measurement would be most useful?
- Handspans
- Steps
- Eye blinks
- Arm swings
2.Tick all the body parts or movements that could be used to measure length or distance.
- Foot lengths
- Handspans
- Steps
- Hair colour
3.Which is longer: 1 metre or 100 centimetres?
- 1 metre
- 100 centimetres
- They are the same length
4.Nathan measures a bench as 9 handspans. Sione measures the same bench as 7 handspans. How could both measurements be correct?
Measure like a helper
Try these activities with safe, nearby objects. Record your own results.
5.Measure your handspan from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger when your hand is stretched out. Record your measurement in centimetres.
6.Estimate how many of your handspans long a book is. Then measure it with your handspans. Write both numbers.
7.Walk heel-to-toe along a clear, safe path for 5 metres. How many of your foot lengths fit along the path? Record your count.
8.True or false: if two people use their handspans to measure the same table, they will always get the same number.
TrueFalse
9.The vet needs to check whether a puppy has grown since last month. Why would centimetres be more useful than handspans for comparing its back length?
10.Suppose your arm span is about 1 metre. About how many arm spans would stretch across a 3-metre space?
11.Draw a simple picture showing how you could measure the height of a chair using a body measurement. Add a label to show what you used.
Draw in the space above or below, depending on your page layout.
12.Complete the idea: Body measurements are useful for a quick estimate, but they may not be exact because…
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