A Hundreds Day Study for Upper Elementary Students-how Much is a Hundred?

Hundred’s Day is so much fun in the earlyDigital still pictures are required, yet many
grades, but it can also be fun when you add thestudents wanted to use the video camera and
older children into the celebration.add the commentary with their comparisons. Both
The focus in this activity is comparing how oneare nice!
hundred can be big in size, or one hundred can beIn addition, when doing this with a class, the
small in size. For instance, one hundred could fit inyounger grades had made collections of one
the palm of a hand if you were holding about onehundred objects in many different ways and
hundred staples or one hundred grains of rice. Aupper elementary students photographed these
hundred can be huge if you are looking at oneprojects and quickly dropped them into the end
hundred cars in the parking lot or a pile of aof the movie for added excitement from the
hundred coats.younger children. One class had to wear their
How stinky do you think one hundred shoes mightcollections on their T-shirts so those photos were
be?great with the smiling youngsters. Other classes
Could you read one hundred books? Even thathad to put them on a poster board, so those
could be compared. 100 textbooks versus 100photos were easier to take before the day of
paperback picture books. Those stacks would becelebration.
an interesting comparison!The upper elementary classes that made these
Upper elementary aged students have amovies can join in the celebrations and have a
spectacular time creating a movie to be shown tospectacular time while also learning comparative
the younger students in honor of Hundred’smathematical skills along with photography, digital
Day.movie making, and cooperative teamwork skills.