| Language | ||
| 1. Encourage your students to create a story about where their feet would walk if they could go anywhere. | ||
| 2. Cut feet shapes and have your students make a story book about their experience with this project. | ||
| 3. Write a poem, a haiku, a limerick, or acrostic verse about their foot. | ||
| 4. Read the book, How Big Is A Foot, by Rolf Myller. Visit the web links page for ways to use this book in your classroom. | ||
| Math | ||
| 1. Have your students create pathways using the feet from your classroom. If students have cut out feet with different color construction paper, then have them create pattern pathways.. | ||
| 2. Randomly choose 4 student's feet and have the class guesstimate the total length of those 4 feet. Then measure to see how close they were to their guesstimate. | ||
| 3. Choose different items in your class (paper clips, chalk, pennies) and have your class outline their feet with these objects. Then have them write down their results and compare with other students. | ||
| Technology | ||
| 1. Download the data from the Results Page into Excel and create graphs of the project. If you don't have EXCEL, you can print out the data and use an online graphing program called Create A Graph! | ||
| 2. Using the downloaded data, teach your students how to sort data and create graphs based on state participation. | ||
| 3. Using Inspiration/Kidspiration, create a color visual learning experience. Free 30 day trial available here -- INSPIRATION KIDSPIRATION | ||
| 4. Create PowerPoint/Hyperstudio presentation (including pictures) of your Feet Project!! | ||
| 5. Using a digital or regular camera -- make a collage of your Feet Day! Scan your pictures and print them out on T-Shirt transfer paper as an added memory for your kids!! | ||
| 6. Create a webpage of your Feet Day! Send me the link and we will list it on this website!! | ||
| 7. Using Paint, Kid Pix, or any other graphics program, create a Foot Memory!! | ||
| 8. Visit the Guiness Book of World Records site and search feet to find the largest feet on a living person then look for a shoe size to inches chart to explore further.. (idea submitted by Lynda L. Eckert, PA) | ||