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Recommended for: Grades 5-8

Resource: In a Land of Giants

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Length: 3m 33s
Size: 9.9 MB

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad is trapped on Proporciona, a place where objects are 10 times larger than the kids. The CyberSquad needs to build a boat just like one that belongs to the giants, but ten times smaller. They find some model boat kits that belong to the giants and try to figure out which pieces are the right proportion and can be used together.

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Teachers' Domain, In a Land of Giants, published October 8, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.rat.landgiants/

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Frame: : Small models of boats and cars are popular with some collectors, and there are kits for model boats and cars that you can build yourself. The description on the box often mentions how such kits are “scale models,” and they list a scale on the box that looks like this: 1:16. What do you think these numbers might mean?

Focus: The CyberSquad finds some model boat kits and they try to put pieces from these kits together to create a boat that will fit them, but their plan doesn’t work out at first. What does the squad do to make sure they have the right size pieces? What do they know about scale that helps them?