Working with scale

Today’s Key Questions:

1. What does it look like to be 10 times bigger (or smaller)? 100 times? 1000 times?

By the end of class, I should be able to:

• describe my understanding of scale

August Process Words

• Compose
• Illustrate
• Contribute
• Elaborate

Class Opening:

1. If it is your day to contribute to the class data, please do so first.
2. Plant / Human Drawing

Tasks:

1. Please complete the second half of your drawing with a plant.
2. On both sides (you & the plant), go back and draw/label external features.

Working with Scale

A few animations:

• Cell Size and Scale
• How Big is a …?
• The Scale of the Universe

HW: create a blog posting that describes today's activities and how you would explain the concept of scale to a classmate