100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster

Congratulations on your purchase of this Really Good Stuff 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Posteran interactive, informative Poster that helps students count the first 100 days of school while learning 100 interesting facts at the same time. This Really Good Stuff product includes: 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster This Really Good Stuff Activity Guide President Lincoln, then ask someone to describe the hat that President Lincoln wore. Show the class a picture of President Lincoln wearing his black stovepipe hat. Ask students to explain why they think it was a good idea or a bad idea to keep important papers in his hat. Discuss where students might find some more information about President Lincoln, or direct them to materials you have collected for additional research. Make copies of the Fun Fact Information Sheet Reproducible and place them near the research materials. When students find more information about a fact, urge them to record the fact, where they found the information, and what they found out on a copy of the reproducible. Collect and review the reproducibles and allow students to share at the end of the day. Display the reproducibles around the Poster or bind them in a notebook for students to read.

Displaying the 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster

Before displaying the 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster, make copies of this Really Good Stuff Activity Guide, cut apart the reproducibles, and file the pages for future use. Or, download another copy of it from our Web site at www.reallygoodstuff.com. Hang the Poster where students will be able to see and interact with it easily.

Research Skills
The fun facts on the Poster will motivate students to find out more about specific subjects, test some of the facts, be creative in measuring some of the large distances or amounts, and compare the information in the fun facts to what they already know. Help your class become more proficient at reading a table of contents, index, glossary, and appendix and interpreting illustrations, diagrams, charts, and graphs to find out more information. For example, you might ask students who seem interested in fact #58The worlds largest desert is the Sahara Desert in Africato find out where the smallest desert, the hottest desert, and the coldest desert are located. Or, you might assign students who are interested in fact #45The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle earto find out which bone is the longest, or how many bones are in our legs and arms.

Using the 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-aFlap Poster

Prior to introducing the 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster, review all the fun facts in the guide, making note of connections to your curriculum. Some examples might be: Facts #7 and #8 (sharks), #10 (dolphins), #13 (whales), #19 (jellyfish) can supplement a unit on ocean life; facts #35 (horses) and #79 (pig) tie into a farm theme; facts #11 (heart), #16 (thumb and nose), #17 (foot), #20 (sneezing), #21 (fingernails), #45 (smallest bone) relate to the human body; and facts #36, #46, #60 and #89 involve measurement. Gather resources, such as nonfiction books and magazines, encyclopedias, photos, and online articles that you and/or your students can use to find out more information about the fun facts as they open each flap.

Introducing the 100th Day Countdown Fun Facts Lift-a-Flap Poster

On the first day of school, gather students around the Poster. Read the title and poem to students and explain that they are going to open one flap each day until they reach 100th Day. Under each flap is an interesting and fun fact that they can share with others, or research for more information to share with the class. Choose a student to open flap #1. Read or have the student read the fact aloud and encourage students to talk about it. For example, fun fact #1 states: President Abraham Lincoln used to stick important papers inside his top hat. Ask students what they know about
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Understanding Facts
Challenge students to come up with ways to heighten their understanding of some of the fun facts. For example, fun fact #8 states: Some sharks can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of seawater. Brainstorm how to simulate what a million drops of seawater would look like. Or, measure out 100 feet for fun fact #36A giant Arctic lions mane jellyfish have tentacles that can reach 100 feet in length. Urge students who have a dog to compare the length of their dogs ears to Tiggers ears in fun fact #88 The longest ears ever measured on a dog are 1334 inches long. The ears belong to a bloodhound named Tigger. Suggest that students who have a baby brother or
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sister check out fun fact #48Infants blink only once or twice a minute. that measures more than 22 inches long. Then instruct students to research and draw the insect full size. Or, instruct older students to use the numbers in fact #91The oldest message in a bottle spent 92 years and 229 days at seato figure out how many leap years the bottle was at sea. After giving students a few problems with measuring facts, challenge students to identify other measuring facts on the Poster and create measurement problems to challenge the rest of their class.

100th Day Celebration

Place small pieces of paper and a basket near the Poster. After opening the last flap on 100th Day, ask students to vote for their favorite fun fact. During the day, urge students to review their Fun Fact Information sheets during their free time. Have students choose their favorite fact, write their name and the fact number on a piece of paper, and put the paper in the basket. Tell students to be prepared to tell why they choose a particular fact and to be ready to share their reasoning. At the end of the day, pull the scraps of paper from the basket, tally the votes, and call on those students who voted for the winning fact to tell why it was their favorite.

More Fun Facts Through the End of the Year

After all of the flaps have been opened, have students research new facts for the remaining days of school. Cut index cards into 80, 112" x 112" pieces. Challenge students to research other fun facts, write them on pieces of paper along with their names, and turn them in. Review the facts and label the pieces of index cards with your selections. Place a small amount of poster putty or tape on the back of each fact, stick them in the windows from #1 to #80, and close the flaps. As each flap is opened, have the student who wrote the fact share more information with the class.

Measuring Facts
Have students think about the types of measuring being used in the fun facts. For example, ask students to figure out how many pieces of drawing paper they would need to draw a megastick described in fact #97The longest insect on Earth is the Chans megastick, a stick insect
Fun Fact Information Sheet Reproducibles

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1. President Abraham Lincoln used to stick important papers inside his top hat. The words racecar, kayak, and radar are palindromes. They read the same backward as well as forward. Chameleons have very long tongues, sometimes longer than their body length. Some chimpanzees are able to recognize the numbers 19 and their values. A kangaroo rat can survive without drinking any water. Dogs can hear sounds around four times farther away than humans. Sharks do not have any bones in their bodies. Their skeleton is made up of cartilage. Some sharks can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of seawater. Instead of drinking water, frogs soak water into their body through their skin. Dolphins communicate with one another by clicking and squeaking. Your heart beats around 100,000 times each day. The worlds smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny. The whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. Frogs never close their eyes, even when they sleep. The fastest domesticated dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 45 miles per hour. Your thumb, ears, and nose are all about the same length. Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow. 18. A jellyfish is 95 percent water! 19. The female lion does most of the hunting. 20. Sneezes can travel more than 100 miles per hour. 21. Your fingernails grow faster than your toenails! 22. The average person blinks more than 6 million times a year! 23. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! 24. A giraffes tongue is blackishblue and can be up to 20 inches long! 25. A crocodile keeps its mouth open to stay cool. 26. Drinking is one of the most dangerous times for a giraffe because it cannot keep a look out for predators. 27. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is, Go. 28. The word month has no rhyming word in the English language. 29. Of all the animals in the world today, the ostrich lays the largest egg. It is 6 x 5 inches and weighs about 3 pounds. 30. It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. 31. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. 32. The largest butterfly in the world is the Queen Alexandras birdwing with a wingspan up to 1 foot. 33. Frogs can see in all different directions without moving their heads. 34. Like a cow, a giraffe has a four-compartment stomach. 35. Horses can sleep standing up. 36. Giant Arctic lions mane jellyfish have tentacles that can reach 100 feet in length. 37. The only way insects such as bees, mosquitoes, and cicadas make noise is by rapidly moving their wings. 38. The horn of a rhinoceros is made out of compacted hair and keratin (fingernail material). 39. Snakes can see through their closed eyelids. 40. Polar bears have black skin covered with transparent fur. 41. A housefly usually lives for 20 to 30 days. 42. Only the female mosquito bites people. 43. Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not. 44. The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body. 45. The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. 46. It takes the human body 12 to 24 hours to completely digest food completely. 47. As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints. 48. Infants blink only once or twice a minute. 49. Your sense of smell is around 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste. 50. Penguins cannot fly in the air. They use their wings, called flippers, to swim under water. 51. Kangaroos cannot walk backward. 52. Butterflies taste receptors are in their feet, so they taste food by standing on top of it! 53. Although the stegosaurus was more than 30 feet long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.

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54. Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them. 55. Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads! 56. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. 57. Sneezing with your eyes open is almost impossible. 58. The worlds largest desert is the Sahara Desert in Africa. 59. The earth isnt perfectly round; it is slightly squashed at the north and south poles and swollen at the equator. 60. Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. It towers 29,028 feet above sea level. 61. The volcanic rock known as pumice is the only rock that can float in water. 62. Footprints and tire tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever because there is no wind to blow them away. 63. Thunder is created when the air around lightning gets hot and expands faster than the speed of sound. 64. Sound travels four times faster in water than it does through air. 65. Cranberries are tested for ripeness by bouncing them. 66. Some types of the bamboo plant grow 24 to 36 inches in a day! 67. Diamonds are the hardest known substance on Earth. 68. It is very windy on Saturn. The winds can reach around 1,100 miles per hour. 69. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
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70. Only one species of daddy long legs are actually spiders. 71. Spiders recycle silk. They eat their old silk before building a new web. 72. Hummingbirds can fly backward. 73. In some countries, people roast termites and eat them by the handful, like popcorn. 74. Back in the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine. 75. An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, which would be like an adult lifting a car. 76. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. 77. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. 78. The female mackerel fish lays about 500,000 eggs at one time. 79. The biggest pig in recorded history weighed more than 1,997 pounds. 80. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor. 81. A shrimps heart is in its head. 82. There are around 450 hairs in each of your eyebrows. 83. A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second. 84. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects. They can fly up to 43 miles per hour. 85. A hummingbird can barely walk because it has poorly developed feet. 86. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of marine worms is green, and the blood of lobsters is blue. 87. Worker ants can live up to 7 years; queen ants can live up to 25 years.

88. The longest ears ever measured on a dog are 1334 inches long. The ears belong to a bloodhound named Tigger. 89. The worlds largest pumpkin weighed 1,725 pounds. 90. The tallest dog on record is a Great Dane that measures a little over 42 inches tall. 91. The oldest message in a bottle spent 92 years and 229 days at sea. It was thrown into the water on April 25, 1914 and found on December 10, 2006. 92. The largest sandwich ever created weighed in at 8,895 pounds. 93. The U.S. record for a winters snowfall happened in Mount Baker, Washington, in 19981999 when 95 feet of snow fell. 94. The largest animal on Earth is the blue whale, which can measure up to 89 feet long and weigh up to 100 tons. 95. The strongest animal on Earth is the rhinoceros beetle, which can carry 850 times its own weight. 96. The animal with the longest lifespan is the Galpagos tortoise. It can live more than 150 years. 97. The longest insect on Earth is the Chans megastick, a stick insect that measures more than 22 inches long. 98. Cockroaches have been around for more than 300 million years. That is longer than any other insect. 99. The world record for the largest shoes is size 37 which belonged to a man named Robert Wadlow. 100.The worlds largest ice cream sundae weighed 54,917 pounds!

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