World Record Stuff
Here are some ideas for getting students to discuss world records and maybe even aspire to set one, one day.
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I’m a big advocate for teachers sharing aspects of their lives in class and especially as part of the lessons. See this prior post with some ideas. It’s something a textbook can never do and students are always very curious about their teacher.
See our - Guessing About The Teacher resource.
I’d like to share with members this material I’ve used with my own students using my own life as an example. I had 15 minutes of fame while a teacher, teaching a Grade 4 class in Toronto. Runner’s World ran an article about my 24 hours Guinness World Record treadmill run and I turned that into a simple reading exercise. Get it here, free for all members. If interested, read about my class of that year - there is an article on this page.
Our community has many great materials to use for teaching about Guinness World Records. Here is our full activity book. It is a great resource and bringing the real Guinness World Record book into class, even makes it more interesting. See their PDF guide for teachers.
Here are a few ideas for teaching this topic.
Students can guess about records and then check what the actual record truly is.
Students can research records of different categories and then report back to the class.
Students can research the lives of record holders. See a video about a world record, world record holder on our video platform.
Students can watch videos about world records being set and try to predict what the result will be.
Students can compete in class to set records and find out who has the class record for x (biggest hands, fastest hand writing, longest hair etc …).
Students can research records for almost any topic you are teaching! Plants, rivers, people, intelligence, colors … anything!
Find materials for all these kinds of activities with our Guinness World Record tag.
Happy record setting!
David