Scale Analysis with Honey I Shrunk the Kids Movie!
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Grade Levels
7th - 12th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSS7.G.A.1
CCSS8.G.A.4
CCSSHSG-SRT.A.1
CCSSHSG-MG.A.3
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
3 pages
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What educators are saying
This was a really great way to incorporate the content of scaling with a great movie. My students were really intrigued by the liberties that were taken by Hollywood to make things more entertaining.
I was so surprised at how much my students enjoyed watching the movie! They willingly paused when I asked them to discuss and calculate the scaled items. We did this over a few days at the end of the school year.
Description
Math teachers never get movie days - until now! Enjoy the classic movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids (purchase on Amazon for quick delivery!) and give your students a glimpse at the wonders of scale. Hollywood made a few mistakes - can your students figure out which props were not done to scale? This document keeps students accountable for watching the movie and reflecting on what they observe in each scene. There is a page of reflection and scale analysis included.
Total Pages
3 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
90 minutes
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS7.G.A.1
Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale.
CCSS8.G.A.4
Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.
CCSSHSG-SRT.A.1
Verify experimentally the properties of dilations given by a center and a scale factor:
CCSSHSG-MG.A.3
Apply geometric methods to solve design problems (e.g., designing an object or structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems based on ratios).
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