In the video “Greetings from Dinosaur World,” students take a trip to the park, located in western Kentucky near Mammoth Cave, where fossil records of real dinosaurs were used to create more than 100 models, all scaled to size. The sculptures range from dog-sized dinos to ones as tall as four-story buildings. Click the "view" button on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

In the Flash activity “Size-O-Rama” students estimate and determine proportional relationships related to the size of dinosaurs. Another activity, “Din-O-Rama,” asks students to resize a dinosaur so it is the correct scale for a virtual dinorama. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

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From Babe Ruth to Ken Griffey Jr., baseball’s heavy hitters have used wooden bats crafted by Louisville Slugger. “Greetings from the Louisville Slugger Museum” video features a tour of the factory and a look at the World’s Largest Bat. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

Using the activity “Similar Shadows,” students explore and calculate how measurement, right triangles, and shadows can be used to determine an unknown height. Click "view" on the left to open the flash activity.

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In the video, “Greetings from the World of Mural Painting,” students see two large contemporary murals painted on the sides of buildings as well as wonderful old murals created for post offices during the Great Depression. The video asks students to think about how mural artists use math to create large works of arts. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

The activity “Mural Math” has students use skills in computation and problem solving to determine answers related to area. Students also identify the steps and information necessary to use proportional reasoning to solve problems. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

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“Greetings from Miniature Land” features fascinating collections of perfectly scaled tiny versions of real places and things. The video includes a trip to the third largest miniature collection in the world at the Kentucky Gateway Museum in Maysville featuring a 1:12 scale replica of Princess Diana’s childhood home. The video also introduces how architects use scale models to help design real buildings. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

In the activity “House of Scales,” students use information about scale to determine the measurements of given objects using proportional reasoning. They will scale up the dimensions of a tiny house to a more livable version, and then decorate the house whey they’re finished. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

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You can fry a lot of chicken in the world’s largest skillet featured at the World Chicken Festival held annually in London, Kentucky, located near Corbin, the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The video, “Greetings from the World Chicken Festival, ” introduces scaling up recipes—how much flour, oil, and chicken do you need to feed 8,000 people? The video also pays a visit to the Casey County Apple Festival featuring the world’s largest apple pie. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

In the activity “Sunnyside Up,” students scale up recipes for a large family reunion. They apply what they know about equivalent ratios and fractions to determine how to prepare enough food. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

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“Greetings from Sky-Vue Drive-In” takes students on a tour through the history of drive-in theaters and a visit to one that’s still open and thriving in Winchester, Kentucky. Looking at shadows through the drive-in movie projector introduces the relationship of a shadow’s size to its distance from the light source. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.

The activity “Drive-In Shadow Puppets” demonstrates the concept of inverse proportions by allowing students to experiment with shadow sizes cast by a movie projector and discover how the height of the shadow changes based on distance from the projector. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

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In “Greetings from the Belle of Louisville,” students get to see and hear the old-time music of a calliope on the historic steamboat docked in Louisville, Kentucky. Students learn about the sound pipes make proportionate to their length by watching the calliope pipes whistle a tune and applying the same concept to a church organ and other musical instruments. Click "view" on the left to watch the video. A new window will open, and you can close it to return here when you are done.>

The video sets the stage for the activity “Musical Scales” where students align musical notes on a virtual pan flute. Students use proportional reasoning to calculate frequencies and put the pipes in correct order, from the lowest pitch to the highest. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

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“Greetings from the Kentucky Horse Park” features the lush paddocks filled with breeds of various shapes and sizes in the park located in Lexington, Kentucky. Students learn how horses are measured—by “hands”; see the relationship between a horse’s stride and speed; and begin to think about the relationship among speed, time, and distance. Click "view" on the left to watch the video.

In the activity, “At the Track,” students race the great Thoroughbred Man o’ War against other great horses, a cheetah, and people. Students learn to calculate rate of speed and the direct and inverse proportional relationships between speed and distance and speed and time. Click "view" on the left to open the Flash activity.

See below for a demonstration of the Flash activity.

For review, pre- or post-assessment, or just for fun, the Scale City Quiz uses an old-fashioned vending machine and a game-like structure to test students’ knowledge of the proportional reasoning concepts taught in the eight interactive simulations. The Quiz is primarily designed for individual use.

When players get right answers—two for each module—they earn a “snack.” The object is to win all eight snacks.