A Year Is
You could say that a year is:
How many ways can you find to describe a year?
1. Be creative! A year is a lively thing, full of activity. A year might be 1,095 dog walks, or 20 yards of toothpaste. It could be 37 gallons of orange juice or 42 hours of waiting for the school bus!
2. Think of some creative ways to describe a year. Think of events you do weekly, daily, or many times a day. Consider what you do during the week that you don’t do on weekends, or vice versa. Try to investigate ideas that nobody else will think of!
3. Find ways to express your events. Can they be timed, counted, packaged, weighed, or measured in some other way?
4. Figure out how often each event happens in a day, a week, a month, and then find a total for the year. Use whatever unit fits your investigation.
5. Prepare a list of what equals a year to you. Keep track of your calculations so you can explain and share your strategies.
6. Make a poster to display the way you found to describe a year.
- 365 days - 12 months - 525,600 minutes - 31,536,000 seconds
- 5 slices of bread a day. 1 piece for breakfast, 2 slices for a sandwich, and 2 slices for a snack.
5 slices of bread x 7 days in a week = 35 slices of bread in a week.
35 slices of bread in a week x 52 weeks in a year = 1820 slices of bread in a year.
1 loaf of bread = approximately 28 slices of bread. - 1820 slices of bread divided by 28 slices of bread = 65 loaves of bread in a year. And that is just for you! How many slices of bread does your family eat in a year? You and your classmates? Everyone in the town of Cary? How many loaves of bread do we consume?
How many ways can you find to describe a year?
1. Be creative! A year is a lively thing, full of activity. A year might be 1,095 dog walks, or 20 yards of toothpaste. It could be 37 gallons of orange juice or 42 hours of waiting for the school bus!
2. Think of some creative ways to describe a year. Think of events you do weekly, daily, or many times a day. Consider what you do during the week that you don’t do on weekends, or vice versa. Try to investigate ideas that nobody else will think of!
3. Find ways to express your events. Can they be timed, counted, packaged, weighed, or measured in some other way?
4. Figure out how often each event happens in a day, a week, a month, and then find a total for the year. Use whatever unit fits your investigation.
5. Prepare a list of what equals a year to you. Keep track of your calculations so you can explain and share your strategies.
6. Make a poster to display the way you found to describe a year.