Is a virus bigger than a bacterium? Is the distance from the Earth to the Moon greater than the diameter of the Earth? In this investigation, students explore the relative sizes of things through a card-sorting activity. The goal is to raise students’ awareness of metric distance scales and to promote the development of a series of conceptual anchors that they can use to estimate the sizes of objects.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2009Stock # PB237X_4