WORKING ON DISTANCES

         Working distances with children requires some ingenuity and interest that awakens the enthusiasm to learn the essential application that is given to the practice of measuring. One of the best ways to bring the measure closer to a child is by working transversally. For example, the distances and scales together with the proportions with the planets or the different geographical points of the Earth is a good method. The maps and what it represents in real life. In addition to learning cartography and the elements of a map, with the interplanetary distances of our solar system can be carried out a project in which children learn to make a model. The change of measure is an important part of the task. First they should look for information about what measures everything in reality on the internet and then make a map with the scale they want and finally compare distances.

            We can also teach kids to learn how to measure distances on Earth with GOOGLE EARTH PRO if we do not want to use traditional maps with scales. Check out this video:

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..." The universe is an amazing space where millions and millions of things of all sizes fit, like stars, marbles, sand, friends, flies and butterflies" ...

                  Did you know…?

            The smallest measure that exists is called "Planck length", equivalent to 0.0000000001 yoctometers and is used only to measure theoretical spaces of quantum physics.

               The smallest particle is the "neutrino" and measures only 0.00000000000000000000000001 meters, although its existence has not yet been confirmed. The particles, discovered until now, smaller are the "proton" and the "neutron" that measure 0.000000000000001 meters. These particles form everything we know.

         The smallest animal is the "dust mite" and measures the same as the width of a human hair. They are arachnids and is one of the oldest beings on earth.

          The smallest mammal is the shrew with 10 cm. in length, but in proportion it has the largest brain of all mammals (10% of its body).

        A sunflower can measure twice as much as a person, but not as much as the "giant Japanese crab" that measures 3 meters.

       The land from end to end has 12,700 kilometers, almost nothing compared to the 1,400,000 kilometers of the Sun. But there is no reason to feel small, if all humans put one on top of the other we would reach 10 million kilometers in height.

          Knowing the samllest length is key to make them want to know the largest... THE SPACE!

          The biggest thing, the Universe with 160,000 million light years. But we do not know if there is something beyond hidden in ... the infinite.