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Footprints: Take a Step into Estimation

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Compare sizes of student footprints with those of elephants and sauropod dinosaurs! Upper graders make estimations of the areas of irregular shapes; learners use grids to make and explain estimates within low and high ranges.

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footprints, dinosaurs, elephants, scale

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dinosaurs, elephants, footprints, scale, math
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Grade
3rd - 6th
Subjects
Math
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For Teacher Use
Duration
3 hrs
Instructional Strategies
Inquiry-Based Learning
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