Scientific+Notation+WebQuest

Your first task is to correct your homework from Friday. Open either the PowerPoint or the Pdf file and correct your homework. 

=Welcome to the Scientific Notation WebQuest =

Over the next two days you will be embarking on a Scientific Notation WebQues t. Follow the directions carefully and you will have fun finding out how big and small scientific notation numbers can actually be.

Lets quickly review how we write standard notation numbers in Scientific Notation. The short video below shows how to write in Scientific Notation.

Click on the following web link to review [|Scientific Notation]

Lets first find some really big numbers and then some really small numbers out there. I have provided a few of the measurements in the following table.


 * **Real Life example ** || **Standard Notation ** ||
 * Population of Earth ||  ||
 * Speed of light ||  ||
 * Diameter of a grain of sand (in meters) ||  ||
 * Stars in the Milky Way || 356,000,000,000 ||
 * Length of a dust mite || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">0.000136 meters ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Width of a human hair || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">0.00108 centimeters ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Distance from Pluto to Neptune ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Distance from Neptune to the Sun ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Distance from the center of the earth to the moon ||  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">**Your task**:

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Use the internet to help you find the measurements of each of the missing distances or measurements in the hand out provided. You will write the numbers in standard notation and scientific notatino. Remember that Wikipedia is not yet a reliable source.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">[|Google] <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">[|Bing] <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">[|Yahoo!]

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">**When you are done, hand in your completed worksheet to your teacher and you are done for the day. If you run out of time it is your homework to finish the hand out.**

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">If you finish early, enjoy this video that helps you understand the magnitude of adding one more zero onto a number.

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