Thursday, January 19, 2023

9 World Records

I'm working with a nine-year-old student on Zoom and she has requested a special MLB topic: World Records. This reminds me of when I had a child who wanted to learn Amazing Animal Facts. Same age! It's a very nine-year-old topic.

So just in case this is useful to anyone, I'm going to keep track of what we do for this block. And here's the Guinness World Records Hall of Fame!


Jan 19
Oldest-ever person

Jeanne Louise Calment
122 years, 164 days

    The world's oldest person, Sister André of France, dies at age 118
    NPR

    what operation do we use to calculate how old someone is / was?

    discuss +, -, x, ÷

    eliminate +, x, ÷ and settle on -

    practice writing down numbers that are dictated to you without being able to see them first (she put a zero in 1997 [19907] and 1875 [18705] because she heard "ninety" and "seventy" in those numbers)

    subtract 1875 from 1997

    add record to MLB, add illustration of an enormous birthday cake


Jan 21
Tallest-ever person

Robert Pershing Wadlow
272 cm

    Why Robert Wadlow will be the tallest person ever, forever
    Guiness World Records

    compare measuring tools (measuring tape, ruler, meterstick)

    practice with measuring tape: find the circumference of your head

    measure your height by lying down flat on the floor with your feet against a wall, put a pencil on the carpet at the top of your head, place the end of the measuring tape at the wall (you can put a book on it to keep it steady) and then measure the distance to the pencil

    to measure the height of the tallest person who ever lived, place the end of the measuring tape against the wall as before and unroll it to the end of the tape (150 cm), place a pencil at 150 cm

    subtract 150 cm from 272 cm

    move the end of the tape to the pencil, measure an additional 122 cm

    measure and cut a piece of yarn 272 cm long

    look at picture of Robert Wadlow

    add record to MLB, tape in an envelope with the piece of yarn in it


    also interesting:
    Sulemana Abdul Samed

    The Ghanaian giant reported to be the world’s tallest man
    BBC - Jan 2, 2023


Jan 24
Longest-ever fingernails on a pair of hands (female)

Diana Armstrong
1,306.58 cm


Jan 26
Most consecutive cars jumped over on a pogo stick

Tyler Phillips
six

    review tally marks

    read out a list of all the pogo stick-related world titles and have her count them via tally marks

    choose some interesting world records from the list to read

    choose one to add to MLB

    add record to MLB, add illustration of pogo stick and car


Jan 28
Most straws held in the mouth (with hands)

Karate Nataraj
692

    review singular and plural nouns

    explain "paren" and "parentheses"

    play Word Tennis with words that begin with < st >
    we thought of 13

    use Wordsearcher to look up all the words that start with < st >
    search query ^st
    1179 results

    look at picture of Karate Nataraj

    add record to MLB, add illustration of straws and mouth


Jan 30 & 31
First person to survive drop over Niagara Falls

Annie Edson Taylor
October 24, 1901


Feb 2
Longest sofa

Mnogo Mebeli
1,006.61 m


Feb 4
Fastest time to dress a Barbie doll

Catherine Lomas
28.87 sec

    use the Golden Mat and the Colored Bead Bars to practice making and reading numbers to the hundred thousands place

    read out a list of all the Barbie-related world titles and have her count them via tally marks

    choose some interesting world records from the list to read

    choose one to add to MLB

    add record to MLB, add illustration of Barbie doll and clothes


Feb 6 & 7
Longest car

The American Dream
30.54 m


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