Sizing Things Down

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Overview

Description:

This is a card game which can be played with museum visitors. Visitors will learn the relative sizes of various objects. They compete against each other (or you) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Size matters: things in the universe come in different sizes.

Learning goals:

Visitors will be able to compare the relative sizes of various objects.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement #ESI-0532536. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

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Nano Topics

Fundamentals

Audience

All ages

Permissions

Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Standards

Earth and space science:

K-4: Objects in the sky

5-8: Earth in the solar system

9-12: Origin and evolution of the universe

Physical science:

K-4: Properties of objects and materials

5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter

9-12: Structure and properties of matter

9-12: Structure of atoms

Science and Technology:

K-4: Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

5-8: Understanding about science and technology

9-12: Understanding about science and technology

Resources

Files:

Sizing Things Down - Lesson Plan

Sizing Things Down - Card Game Worksheet

Sizing Things Down - Deck of Cards

Video:

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Comments

Full Body adaptation

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:36.

If you have a large group, you could give each person in the group a card, and then have everyone self-assemble into a single list of largest to smallest.

Then you would read off the big list, pointing out any interesting size relationships.