Light Year as Distance

by: Geoff Holt and Nancy W. West

Students, in this activity, measure distances by walking heel-to-toe in the unit “student minute.” This is to gain an intuitive under¬standing of light years, a unit in which time represents distance.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 3/15/2011Stock # PB298X2_2a

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