Horton Hears a Who! – MNU Activities | Learning Outdoors Support Team

Horton Hears a Who! MNU Activities

This is a Dr Suess book with a powerful message – ‘ A person’s a person, no matter how small.’ Watch Jeff Goldblum reading the story before trying out some of the activities You Tube – Horton Hears a Who!

These activities are suitable for learners working at First and Second Level depending on the level of support.

Place Value Games

CfE Es and Os MNU 1-02a, 2- 02a

Before trying these tasks visit BBC Bitesize for recap on Place Value with animated explanations, games and quizes.

Game 1

When Horton searched for the clover that the Wickersham Brothers had snatched from him, he piled up “nine thousand and five” clover flowers. Can you partition the number – how many thousands are there, how many hundreds, how many tens and how many units?

Using the same digits, can you make new numbers? Which is the smallest number you can make using 9, 0, and 5? Which is the largest?

Game 2

Write the digits 0 to 9 on small pieces of scrap paper. Pick 3 from your collection of digits. What is the biggest number you can make with those digits? Tip – you will be able to make a 3 digit number, a number that has hundreds, tens and units.

Digits written on stones or bottle tops with permanent marker are fun and easy to move around and manipulate. Challenge other people in your house to make numbers – Can you make the biggest number using these digits? What is the next number after/before – can you make it?

Do a Survey – find out about the air quality in your local area

Complete a Local Air Quality Survey

CfE Es and Os MNU 1 – 20b, 2-20b

Learn about lichen and use a variety of MNU skills to survey the lichen in your area. Lichens are fascinating organisms that are all around us but are easily overlooked. They can be a useful indicator of air quality and relative pollution levels.

A simple survey Lichens – Making the Invisible Visible will help you learn more about lichen. survey also comes with suggestions for what we can do to improve local air quality. What could you do?

Follow the links below to find out how our individual actions might support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.globalgoals.org/