Dinosaurs are how BIG? Mokonui at Ōtaki Kura

 This term we have learnt a lot about dinosaurs. Within Harakeke are some tohunga with epic pronunciation and an encyclopedic knowledge. There has been an enjoyable exchange of knowledge and the fasination has been sustained throughout the term.

We turn our thoughts to the size of dinosaurs this week - we read that the foot of a triceratops was around one metre. We found a metre ruler and measured this out. Then tamariki compared their feet and bodies to the size of foot. 

But wait!! There's more! 

We had to make a few corrections to the shape of the triceratops foot because it wasn't as pointy as we first created it. While we were doing this the question was asked 'how big is a tyrannosaurus rex's foot?

Pai tērā pātai!

We were all a bit surprised to find it was actually a little smaller than the triceratop's foot!

Then the question was asked - what is the biggest dinosaur footprint? Pai tērā pātai hoki!

So we found out that the largest footprint ever found was from a sauropod! It was close to 1.8 metres long!!!

Then we wondered how many tamariki could fit in a foot!

A good exercise of uniform and non-uniform measurement!

Then we invited our friends from Kono to see our footprints also!

Next... we are going to find out how big a velociraptor's foot is!