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Scale City — Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World ActivityScale City — Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World Activity
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PBS
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6th - 7th
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Math
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Scale City — Inverse Proportions and Shadows in the Real World

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Bring the resource out from the shadows. Viewers of a short video learn about drive-in theaters and how operators project images onto a large screen. They then perform an experiment to determine the relationship between the distance of an object from a light source and the size of its shadow.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

inverse variation, proportional reasoning, variables

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Team up with a history and/or science teacher for a cross-curricular lesson

Classroom Considerations

  • Activity requires a projector or other light source
  • Experience with proportional reasoning is necessary
  • Part of the Math at the Core MS: Ratios playlist

Pros

  • Provides a teacher guide with answers
  • Gives a website for further information

Cons

  • None

Common Core

6.RP.A.3.a 6.EE.B.5 6.EE.C.9 7.RP.A.2.a

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