How Big is a T-Rex?

The bell birds group had a story about how to measure a dinosaur. In it, it mentioned that a Tyrannosaurus Rex was about 12 metres high. We tried to see how big this was in Kohara but by the time we had 3 metres we were close to the ceiling!

Today we went outside and we took some rulers with us. Each ruler measured 1 metre. We worked out we would need 12 rulers to make 12 metres. We lay our rulers out in a line and saw that it was more than half the length of a basketball court! This would be how long it would be if the T-Rex was lying down.

Then we decided to see how tall we would be compared to the T-Rex so we took turns lying beside the rulers. We estimated that we would probably only come a little way up the T-Rex's legs! We are actually pretty pleased that we don't have T-Rex's running around our playground.

Now we are wondering what else might be about 12 metres...