Summary
A class trip to the planetarium zooms out from City Island to the whole world. Watt sees how his neighborhood sits inside a city, a country, and a planet. A nice scale-building lesson before any mapping unit.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- What did Watt see when the picture zoomed out from City Island?
- What is bigger than a city? What is bigger than that?
- Where would our school be on a map of the whole world?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: community, country, world.
Try it: Draw three circles: your school inside your town inside your state. Label each one.