RFL (31 August) Estimating distance

Part 1 : More or less than 1 metre

Which of these objects are more than one metre and which are less than one metre?

Part 2 : Working with less than 20 metres

In our session, we worked out that a metre was about the same distance as one big step. Some other measurements we estimated using metres were:

You worked out that your height was in between 1 and 2 metres

Your front door was about 2 metres high

The length of your dining room was about 10 metres

The distance from the front to the back of you classroom was a bit bigger than your dining room

Using your understanding of metres, how many metres would each of these be:

a) The height of this tree

b) The height of a basketball ring

c) the height of a desk

d) The height of an elephant

e) The height of a big helicopter

f) The length of a car

g) The distance you could jump in long jump

Part 3 : Working with more than 20 metres

Using Google Maps, find two places in Yaraville that are the walking distance apart of:

a) 50 metres

b) 100 metres

c) between 200 and 300 metres