Interactive Java Tutorial Powers of Ten Soar through space from the Milky Way to a single proton in order of magnitudes of ten. Explore the use of exponential notation, or powers of ten, to understand and compare the size of things in our world and throughout the universe. In the case of a dog, for example, students will probably identify hair and skin, inside their ears or eyes or noses, fleas. Encourage students to go even further with those types of ideas and then write a story about a child with special powers who can see things at the cellular or atomic level. Then, students can check their predictions and discuss how accurate they were.
Students can draw pictures to illustrate the story.
They will make the connection between their drawings and the drawings they did in the Perspectives Activity. Make a class cartoon or comic book based on the way things look to someone or something very small or very large. Each student or group of students could contribute a panel or portion of the book that could be shared with other classes. Play a game where students each describe an item as seen by an ant. The light source that he used was either sunlight or an oil lamp that he attached directly to the microscope.