{"id":3397,"date":"2015-02-27T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2016-07-16T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:29:20","slug":"who-tall-are-you-classroom-display-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/who-tall-are-you-classroom-display-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWho Tall Are You?\u201d \u2013 Classroom display resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/free_stuff\/who_tall_are_you.pdf\">This resource is designed to be printed off on A3 paper, laminated and then placed at the appropriate height in the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Students (and teachers) are invited to stand against it and write their names at the appropriate height to find out which historical and current celebrities share the same height.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-3399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-27-at-20.41.02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-27 at 20.41.02\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-27-at-20.41.02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-27-at-20.41.02-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Lesson \/ Activity Idea<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 Each student in the class should measure themselves against the \u2018Who tall are you?\u2019 chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Each student then has to choose one of the names corresponding to their height to research in more detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The teacher will then conduct a \u2018balloon debate\u2019 between the different characters over several rounds to determine the most important character chosen.<\/p>\n<h2>Other ideas:<\/h2>\n<p>The \u201cWho tall are you?\u201d chart can be taken down at the end of each academic year and replaced with a fresh version. As students make their way through the school it will be interesting to chart their growth over the course of their time at school over several years. Ideas, suggestions, comments? Contact me on Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/russeltarr\">@russeltarr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h2>Here are some great photos shared by Andrew Fedenev, history teacher at English school #7 in Perm, Russia:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-14-1024x758.\" alt=\"who_tall\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-15-1024x758.\" alt=\"who_tall2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-16-1024x758.\" alt=\"who_tall3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/davis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3401 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/davis-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"davis\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/davis-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/davis-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/davis.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0This resource is designed to be printed off on A3 paper, laminated and then placed at the appropriate height in the classroom. \u2022 Students (and teachers) are invited to stand against it and write their names at the appropriate height to find out which historical and current celebrities share the same height. Lesson \/ Activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[169,136,289,288],"class_list":["bg-responsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}