When building a dollhouse or a model of a car or a cell, close attention to the details is crucial to making it look accurate and realistic. A consistent scaling factor for all details in the model is critical. In this activity, students explore scaling through modeling objects of extreme sizes. They create both a scaled drawing of an object and a scaled 3-D model.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2009Stock # PB237X_9

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