Transcript If You Hopped Like a Frog - Great Rivers Cooperative

If You Hopped Like a Frog
Frogs are champion jumpers. A 3-inch frog can hop 60
inches.
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Record the ratio that illustrates the relationship
between the frogs height (three-inches) and the
distance that he travels when he hops.
Estimate the distance a frog would jump if he were one
foot tall. Show your work on your lab sheet.
Compute your height in inches.
If you could jump 20 times your body length, how far
would you go?
Place your name under the green number line that
represents how far you would jump if you were a frog. .
If You Ate Like a Shrew…
Shrews are among the smallest of mammals, but their
appetites are huge! A shrew that weighs just 1/5 of an
ounce can eat about 3/5 of an ounce of insects and
worms each day. That means it eats three times its
own weight every day.
1. Record the ratio that depicts the relationship between the weight
of a shrew and the amount of food that he eats every day.
2. Think about this. Scientists discovered a shrew that ate 864
pounds of food each day. Give your best estimate describing how
much this shrew would weigh. Justify your answer on your lab
sheet.
3. Fill in your data on the t-chart at this station that would show how
much food you would eat each day if you were a shrew.
If You Flicked Your Tongue Like a
Chameleon…
A 1-foot chameleon may have a 6-inch tongue. Its tongue is half as long as his
body. If you had the tongue of a chameleon and you were 54 inches tall, your
tongue would be 27 inches long.
1. Record the ratio that illustrates the relationship between the height of the
chameleon (12 inches) and the length of his tongue (6 inches).
2. Think about this…You have a bowl of crickets for your pet frog to eat. Your
pet chameleon that is 32 inches long loves crickets. What is the minimum
distance that you must move the crickets away from your chameleon to
ensure their safety? Explain your thinking on your lab sheet.
3. Calculate your height in inches.
4. If you were a chameleon, how long would your tongue be? Cut out a piece
of pink construction paper that represents the length of your chameleon
tongue. Put your name on it and hang it up in this station.
Station 4: If You Craned Your
Neck Like a Crane….
One look at a crane and you’ll understand the
expression “crane your neck”. A whooping crane
that’s four feet tall has a sixteen inch neck. That
means its neck is 1/3 the height of its body.
1. Record the ratio that illustrates the relationship between the height of the
crane and the length of his neck.
2. Calculate the height of your neck if you were a crane. Show your work on
your lab sheet.
3. How would the length of your neck affect your overall height? Record your
results on your lab sheet.
4. If King Kong was a crane who was 200 feet tall, estimate how long would his
neck be? Show your work on your lab sheet.
5. Cut out the length of your crane neck on white paper. Place your name on
your neck and tape it to the wall in this station.