T-Rex

Last week we did a fun investigation of the Tyrannosaurus Rex! We had four spools of yarn; each spool represented a different measurement of the T-Rex. We looked at the size of the T-Rex's head, the length of it's arm, it's height, and it's length. Going out into the hallway, we one at a time investigated each spool to see how many third graders it would take laying down to represent the different measurements. Through our investigation we found it took one and a half third graders to represent size of a T-Rex's head and one third grader to represent the length of the T-Rex's arm. We were shocked to see it took ten third graders to show the height of a T-Rex and eighteen third graders to show the length! It was a very fun experience and it definitely gave the students a better perspective on the size of dinosaurs.