Scaling the City Activity

Materials

• Scaling the City Video 
• Scaling the City Data Activity Sheet 
• Scaling the City Data Answer Key 
• Calculators

• Computers with Internet Connection (optional: SimCity 4 Software)

Lesson Summary

Students will use “ground truthing” to discover actual land sizes for various objects in Sim City 4. Students will use scale to figure out size of streets, buildings, and city areas to determine what they would look like actual size.

For full lesson, see http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=3845