The smaller the area in each pixel, the more detail in the image. Use your artwork to demonstrate differences in resolution 1. Have students draw any multicolored picture they like on the graph paper that has the smaller squares. Then have students lightly draw lines on the graph paper that mark off squares the size of the larger graph paper's grids. Thus each larger square should have four smaller squares contained within it.
Students then determine the average color represented in each larger square.
Have them draw that color on a new piece of graph paper with the larger squares. Using the original artwork, the students then determine the average color represented in each of the smaller squares. Have them draw that color on a new piece of graph paper with the smaller squares. Then look at archival satellite images of the same view of Earth at different resolutions. Gulf of Maine Aquarium.