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Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)

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Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)

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Overview
Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game (NanoDays 2011 and 2012)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconpower.jpeg [5]

Description: 

"Exploring Size - Powers of Ten" is a card game exploring the relative sizes of various objects. Visitors compete to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Things come in different sizes - and size is important!

Learning goals: 

  • Things come in different sizes - and size is important!
  • A nanometer is a billionth of a meter

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Universal design: 

  • Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement
Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Sciencenter [6]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Adaptable Formats

Game [7]

Nano Topics

[8], [9]

Audience

[10]

Tags

[11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [17]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Adaptable formats: 

Game

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

card
game
cardgame
size
nanodays
sizing things down

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans
K-4: Understanding about science and technology
5-8: Understanding about science and technology
9-12: Understanding about science and technology

Earth and space science: 

K-4: Objects in the sky
5-8: Earth in the solar system
9-12: Origin and evolution of the universe

Physical science: 

K-4: Properties of objects and materials
5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter
9-12: Structure and properties of matter
9-12: Structure of atoms
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Guide [18]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Guide [19]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Sign [20]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Cards [21]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Poster [22]

Spanish files: 

application/msword iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Guide (Spanish) [23]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Guide (Spanish) [24]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [25]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Cards (Spanish) [26]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Powers of Ten Game - Poster (Spanish) [27]
Comments

Number Line [28]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [29] on Wed, 01/09/2013 - 16:02.

Someone from one museum told me that for an event they put up the entire deck of cards from this activity along the wall in numerical order. As people went around the space, they would peruse the different objects and find occasional surprises.

Variation [32]

Submitted by Luke Donforth [33] on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 08:26.

I was recently tabling at NSTA, and I had a slight variation of this game out. I pulled pairs of same-scale cards and used those for Memory. The object wasn't to find two of the same card, but two of the same scale card.

I didn't get to play a full game with anyone (teachers at NSTA move quickly because there's lots to see), but several folks liked the idea.

Cross-posted to the Memory game
http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_size_-_memory_game_nan... [34]

Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_size_-_powers_ten_game_nanodays_2011_2012

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