Post date: Sep 11, 2013 3:07:26 PM
Directions
1. On a web browser go to http://htwins.net/scale2 application.
2. Find different objects at the following sizes:
nanometer
micrometer
millimeter
centimeter
meter
dekameter
kilometer
light minute
light year
Farthest out we can see with a telescope
Smallest we can see with a microscope
3. Record the Power of 10 for each object
4. Describe the object. A description will appear in the program if you click on the object.
Objectives
Associate metric prefixes with scientific notation
Appreciate the relative size of things throughout the universe.
Due
Scale of the Universe 9/13