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Becoming an Archaeologist!
Archaeologists and paleontologists search for objects in the ground, including fossils and remnants from past civilizations. They keep logs of all of the objects that they find, but cannot draw each object at its true size. Therefore, they must scale their drawings according to the size of the dig site. In this activity, you will become an archaeologist and dig for artifacts. doc/pdf

It's All Dots!
All pictures are comprised of pixels. These pixels are small dots that are close together on the paper and sometimes trick our eyes so that we think the color is continuous. In this activity, you will investigate pictures from different sources and compare the pixels.doc/pdf

Scale
Scale drawings are useful for many things. Many times, small drawings are done before the larger model is built in order to make sure that everything will go as planned. Imagine buying a sofa and bringing it home only to find that it won’t fit in the room!doc/pdf

Art is Science!
There are many ways available to enlarge pictures that we like. Computers are able to digitally enlarge pictures for us. This is one way that we can get many different sizes of pictures from our cameras. Another way to make pictures bigger is to do so by hand. In this activity, you will enlarge a photo by hand.doc/pdf

Powers of Ten
The metric system is a base ten system. This means that all of their measurements are based on being 1/10 th of the next larger thing. To see how much of a difference this is, you will divide a unit of measurement into ten equal pieces and continue doing so until you have a range of scaled measurements. doc/pdf