Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: My Timeline Redux
In this activity, you'll create a timeline of your life. This should help you think about how your ideas of scale and history have changed after learning about Big History.
Stanford University
Stanford University: How Big Is It?
Lesson provides an activity that introduces the nanoscale using the metric system.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Composite Transformations
In this seven-problem quiz/practice, students show they understand the result of combining different transformations.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Chow Time
Feed the hungry dinosaurs but make sure they are getting the right amount! Click and drag food to the scale until it's balanced.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Pour It Out
Young scholars learn how material properties change as the size of the material decreases to the nanoscale. This lesson investigates the effects of forces at different scales.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Scale Factor
Use this applet to investigate how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of perimeters and the ratio of areas between two figures.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Image Tool
Measure angles, distances, and areas in several different images (choices include maps, aerial photos, and others). A scale feature allows the user to set the scale used for measuring distances and areas.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Made in America: The High Cost of Fashion
Investigate data on changes over time in where our apparel is made and how much we spend on it in these images from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and graph the data. They also look for...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Neo Confucianism & Fan Kuan, Travelers by Streams and Mountains
We know very little about the great artist Fan Kuan, yet he painted the most majestic landscape painting of the early Song period - "Everything about Travelers by Streams and Mountains". Read about why this is an outstanding example of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Fractions and Scale
Students think about how fractional measurements relate to scale models, learn about alternate ways of expressing scale ratios, and demonstrate understanding of fractions and scale in this interactive from KET. After watching video...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Scaling Up Rectangles
Watch a student think through a problem about how the area of a rectangle changes when both sides are increased by the same scale factor and use online tools to demonstrate understanding of concepts related to area and scale factors in...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Problem Solving With Length, Money, and Data
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with problem solving with length, money, and data.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dance Performance: Position on a Map
This interactive website allows students to practice their map skills including scale factors on a map.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Learning Ratios & Proportions Through Scale Drawings
Website which strengthens the conceptual connection between scale drawings and ratios through an activity lesson plan.
Museum of Science
Miami Museum of Science: P H Panel
Try putting different liquids into a virtual pH tester to find out whether they are acids or bases.
Other
Avatar Consultants, Inc: Tuning, Scales, and Temperament
A discussion of the composition of complex sounds produced by a musical instrument. Good illustration of how music is applied to physics. Quite a bit of good information, several pages linked together with good definitions as well as...
Other
Music Theory First Aid for Struggling Students
This site provides music theory information on such topics as rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, etc. Also, there is a fine section which describes the basic concepts of form and structure.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Scale Factors: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to find the scale factor. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Scale Factors."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scale: Lesson 5
This lesson defines the term scale and scale model. It is 5 of 9 in the series titled "Scale."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scale and Similar Figures: Lesson 3
This lesson explains how similar figures are related to the concept of scale. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Scale and Similar Figures."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Assessing the Situation
In this activity, students will use the scale, the key, and longitude and latitude on a map to determine where they have crashed. They will then use the map scale to determine the distance to the nearest city and how long it will take...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Musical Notation
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to the music staff and notation. It describes the notes on both the treble and bass clefs. Sound files for each pitch of a C scale and some Activote questions are...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measuring Scales
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan to review measuring scales.