MONUMENT, MONUMENT, ON THE GROUND....
WHO'S THE OLDEST ONE AROUND?
Numbers are
as prominent as names on the monuments at Crown Hill. Even the casual
observer out for a Sunday stroll is continually calculating ages,
especially when the monument hints at ripe old age or budding youth. The
types of calculations you can ask your students to do are limited only by
their ability and your imagination.
Suggested Activities
Using either the list of people provided earlier, or assigning the students a number of
monuments some place in the cemetery, ask questions such as the
following:
1) Who lived to be the oldest? How old?
2) Who was the
youngest? How old?
3) If they had not died, who would now be the oldest?
How old would they be? (In other words, who was born the longest ago?)
4)
Can you find someone who died before they age of ten? Between 10 and 20?
Between 20 and 30, etc. Can you find anyone who lived to be over 100?
5)
What was the average age of the group buried in your section?
6) What was
the average age of the females buried in your section?
7) What was the
average of the males buried in your section?
8) In your section, what was
the average age of those who died in the 1800s?
9) In your section, what
was the average age of those who died in the 1900s?
10) Do you see any
monuments which contain any of the following shapes in their design? List
the person's name.
a. Square
b. Rectangle
c. Triangle
d. Circle
e. Sphere (or globe)
f. Cube
g. Pyramid
h. Cylinder
11) What other shapes do you see?
12)
Which monument is the tallest?
For classes studying trigonometry, Crown
Hill offers many monuments between 15 and 40 feet high that a class could
try to measure exactly using instruments and tables. (Be sure to share the
results with the Crown Hill Public Relations Department.)
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