Scientific+Notation+WebQuest+Day+2

Now that we have had some practice writing numbers in scientific notation. Lets take it to the next level.

Double check your answers from yesterday's work. Remember that some of your answers may be slightly different depending on your source.

**Your Task:**

We will be working with very large numbers today and doing some multiplication and division with scientific notation.

Use the following website to find the distances from the sun to the planets in the solar system.[|Planets]

Record these distances on the handout provided.

To help understand the extreme distance between the planets, watch the Bill Nye Video to gain an appreciation of the vast distances.

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It is cool that we can write big numbers in scientific notation, but what does it all really mean? Lets compare some of these very large numbers with some very small numbers to see how many of them it would take to get there.

**Division of Scientific Notation** Find the length of a dollar bill [|here]

Use this conversion website to convert the length of a dollar bill to miles. [|Convert]

Now using the length of the dollar bill you will find the amount of bills it will take to get to each of the planets.

**Multiplication of Scientific Notation** Use this [|link] to find out the speed of light in Km/hr to help solve one of the multiplication of scientific notation problems.

Use the following link to find out the current estimated population of the US to help solve the final multiplication of scientific notation problem. [|US Population]

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">***If you finish early you can begin the review packet for the quiz on Thursday****