Block 6, Lab Group 6, Rebecca Harvey, Aleksi Arostegui, Blossom Wong
By: Rebecca Harvey
We decided to use the planets themselves as a scale. This required figuring out how many "earths" would fit in between the Earth and the Moon. In order to calculate this, we found the diameter of the Earth (12,742 km) and the distance between the Moon and the Earth (384,400 km) We divided the distance by the diameter and we concluded that the Earth is about 30 "earths" away from the Moon.
I think we did this activity in order to learn how to use the tools available to us to solve problems
. This also introduced us to using different kind of units of measurement, not just the normal inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
