![]() ![]() When I opened the book, I purposely skipped the introduction, which gives directions for making your own predictions. I read a few more entries from the book’s cover to give the class a taste of what the book is like. I read, “In the next three seconds, Italians will drink a stack of cases of mineral water as high as the Statue of Liberty.” “Read us the one about the Statue of Liberty,” Roxanne asked. The students squinted to read the small print surrounding the Statue of Liberty. Inside the circle are illustrations and words radiating from a central picture of the Statue of Liberty. The cover shows a large circle, which on careful inspection you can see is the outline of a pocket watch. I held the book so the students could see the cover as they came and sat down in the meeting area. ![]() This lesson appears in the new book Math and Nonfiction, Grades 3–5, by Stephanie Sheffield and Kathleen Gallagher. Here, fifth graders explore just one of the predictions made in the book and use estimation, multiplication, and division to make a prediction of their own. all the way up to the next three million years. Predictions for the Millennium (New York: Puffin, 1997) is a collection of predictions about everyday and not-so-everyday events that will take place in the next three seconds, the next three minutes, the next three hours, days, weeks. Rowland Morgan’s In the Next Three Seconds. ![]()
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