The Monsters decide to build an addition on to their castle, but
must let the carpenters know how big they wish the new room to
be. The program explores some of the ways children can gain
accuracy in measurement taking and in communicating their
results. The Monsters progress from describing a room that is
“sort of long” to pacing it out and figuring out the number of
steps. The contractor, Annie Ant, has her own idea of the size
of a step which leads to the development of a standard “Monster
Step” for actual and repeatable measurement. Our field trip is
to visit a carpenter who explains how human beings use standard
measurements in construction.