Thinking in Scale

Level 1

Describing Scale

 

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Relative scales (e.g., bigger and smaller; hotter and colder; faster and slower) can be used to describe objects. Objects exist from the very small to the immensely large. Observable phenomena exist from very short to very long time periods

TERMS

  • Scale - the relative size or extent of something

  • Objects - a material thing that can be seen and touched

  • Phenomena - observable events in the natural world (require explanations)

  • Temperature - the degree of heat present in a substance

  • Size - the relative extent of something

  • Time - an irreversible series of events

STANDARD

3-LS4-1 5-ESS1-1