Part of Lesson Plan: Understanding Relative Sizes in Worlds We Don't See

Activity Overview / Details

Have students go to the following website:    http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ (linked below).

Those students who have yet to fully organize their cards in progressive order of size of elements found on a visual to cellular to molecular level,  can zoom through the images, from a coffee bean to a carbon atom and everything in between in relation to the items found in their deck.

This is in turn a great visualization tool to help them appreciate relative sizes. Ask them to use the website to finish putting their cards in order correctly (if they have not done so already!) If students do not have access to their own laptops or computers, you can simply demonstrate the zoom in and out feature for them as projected on a screen. I suggest you consider starting with the image zoomed all the way down to the Carbon Atom and zooming out to the begin point with the Coffee Bean.