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Tools like this are surprisingly effective for teaching, especially compared to static diagrams. Interaction makes the scale differences stick.

• abustamam 9mo ago
  When my daughter is old enough, I'm definitely going to show her a bunch of visualizations on Neal's site as supplementary education. I learned so much from these visualizations as an adult, and even without being able to read you can get a sense of scale.
  • mncharity 9mo ago
    > When my daughter is old enough Fwiw, I've done a pinch-nail-hand-arms 1-10-100-1000 mm "body as size reference" a couple of times around 5ish. And a 1000x "micro view" "pinch is zoomed to arms size" "it's like a scale model or doll playset - everything zoomed together" world of "bacteria sprinkles, red blood cell candies (M&M minis or concave Smarties minis or Sweetarts - there's lots of cell candy analogs), hair poles, salt/sugar boxes". Stories of sitting on a grain of salt and eating... etc; pet eyelash mites. No idea if it actually worked. I did some user-test videos, now only on archive.org.[1] Hmm... the "Arms, hands" video there now doesn't seem to play inline? - but does wget'ed and browsered. :/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221007220513/www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms https://web.archive.org/web/20221007220513/www.clarifyscienc...
    • abustamam 9mo ago
      Hey that's cool! I like that idea
  • runtimepanic 9mo ago
    Totally agree! Even as adults, the sense of scale hits differently when you interact with it. Your daughter will probably love discovering it too.
• nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9mo ago
  I felt like I was at a museum exhibit. It is fantastic.