It starts by viewing a picnic in a park in Chicago and subsequently zooms out to the outer reaches of space. It then zooms back in to the picnic, into the hand of a human, and ultimately ends up at an artist's conception of subatomic particles in the nucleus of an atom. It is intended to put our subsequent observations in the context of the many orders of magnitude of the larger world. Some of our future work will be analogous to a 'mini powers of ten' as we study an onion at successively higher powers of magnification.
Procedure Show the video at least once.
Consider pausing the video to get reactions at the point that it returns to the hand after zooming out into space. Discuss at what range of sizes the course will be dealing. Resources Video produced by Pyramid Film and Video. The format is Microsoft Word 6.0. All rights reserved.