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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a model of an object of their choice using sketches that they have drawn. They study what a scale model is and how to construct one. They examine the uses for scale models and why they are produced. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students work in cooperative groups to find the actual measurements of an historical building/landmark. Then they use ratio and proportion to figure the measurements that might be used to create a scale model of the structure. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine how to draw pictures to scale and interpret scale and scale models. They analyze scale drawings of houses, observe a teacher-led demonstration, reproduce the picture the teacher draws, and complete a worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students explore scales and scale models. They discuss how scales and scale models are used and develop and interpret scales and scale models. Students create a scale model drawing of a basketball court, a bedroom, and an island. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students sketch and identify line segments, midpoints, intersections, parallel and perpendicular lines. They develop and interpret scales and scale models. Students draw the playground to scale. They explain the scale they used and identify all midpoints, line segments, intersections, parallel and perpendicular lines on their model. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students observe and demonstrate the concept of scale and interpreting scale models. They follow the teacher's step-by-step directions and reproduce a drawing on a smaller scale using the grid method, and complete a worksheet that involves reading a map and scale and solving problems with the map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students use the Internet to conduct research and obtain information. They design and construct a scale model of a dinosaur. They explain how to calculate the measurement of the scaled drawing to find the actual size. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify how models are powerful tools of exploration and that the sizes of the planets and distances between the planets in the Solar System span a large range. They make a sign for each planet they have created in the lesson showing the name of the planet in large letters as well as the size of the planet drawn to scale. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 10th
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Students develop a sense of the scale of our solar system by creating a one to ten billion scale model. They calculate the relative sizes and distances for the planets and asteroid belt using a guiding worksheet. To create the model they place traffic cones at the appropriate distances on a field or sidewalk and use food items such as poppy seeds and gum balls to represent each planet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students research measurements of the moon and Earth as well as the distance between the two in order to create scale models of the Earth-moon system. With a marble to be used as the moon, they must determine how large to make Earth out of modeling clay. Full Review »
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