Using measurement, Jim makes his new giant friend a pair of glasses, teeth and a new wig! Have your students figure out how tall the giant is using a handprint and relationships within the human body. (In fact, experts suggest the height of an individual is 9 times the length of their hand.)
I give my students a handprint from a person in our building (senior student, basketball player, fellow teacher) who is fairly tall. They have to discover how tall they think "the giant" is based on the