Teacher Topic:

I hope you enjoyed the movie today. For your Teacher Topic, please reflect on the following:


1. When the kids end up out in the yard, they state that since they are 1/2 inch tall and they are 64 feet from the house, that would be the equivalent of 3.2 miles. How do you think they came up with that number?

2. The kids also state that the relative size of the butterfly's wingspan would be 42 feet in length. How could they figure this out?

3. If the kids were originally about 60 inches tall and they are now, 1/2 inch tall, what scale factor was used to shrink them?

4. If a human was really reduced to 2 inches in height, do you think that our bodies would still be able to function in the same way? Why or why not?