Comparaisons

Are we approaching the end of the year, or are we approaching the end of the year?! My sixth graders are having a bit of senioritis, so I opted for a complete restart.
I abandoned what we were doing and have moved onto simpler things. We will be spending some time with Simon's Cat (there's a wonderful color montage of some of the classics to celebrate the channel's 15th birthday!), but then I had another idea.

I have decided we will start each class with a little Alice Ayel. (I want to know why I had never thought of this before!) We have started with the first episode of season one of Marie et Médor, and then we went on to her drawing activities.
Alice mentions the height of the Eiffel Tower in the first vide of the drawing series, and I asked my students which they thought was bigger, the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. That's when I came across THIS site

My page came up in French, but based on the URL, I imagine you can get results in various languages.
This IMMEDIATELY make brought the fabulous Ben Tinsley to mind, as he does A LOT with maps (though I've somehow managed to miss every single presentation on the topic).
If you end up using this resource, let me know how!
Bises