Consider your answers to these questions as you go through this activity.

How strong are you relative to your weight now?

How strong would you be relative to your weight if you were shrunk to the size of an ant?

How strong would you be relative to your weight if you were blown up as tall as a 5 story building?

Part 1: Background Information

Type responses in blue to the questions below. (Please do not delete the questions.)

How does your weight compare to your strength?

What type of activity are you using to determine this (bench, squats...)?

Why did you decide on that activity?

How does your height compare to that of an ant?Cite your information (give your sources).

How does your height compare to that of a 5 story building?Cite your information.

Part 2: Problem Solving

Go through all five problem solving steps to answer both the shrinking and blowing up problem. Look back at theThat's Ginormous Activity if you don't remember how to this is done.

1. DAP 2. KNU 3. EQN 4. SSF 5. CYA

Using the information you found, type responses in blue to the discussion questions below.

How strong are you relative to your weight now?(Give as a number ratio.)

How strong would you be relative to your weight if you were shrunk to the size of an ant? Show your work for your calculations.

How much would your height shrink by?(From part 1.)

What would your new strength be?

What would your new weight be?

Give your strength to weight ratio:(Divide your larger answer by the smaller one.so that one side of your ratio is one.Be sure to list your strength first.)

How strong would you be relative to your weight if you were blown up as tall as a 5 story building? Show your work for your calculations.

How much would your height grow by?(From part 1.)

What would your new strength be?

What would your new weight be?

Give your strength to weight ratio:(Divide your larger answer by the smaller one.so that one side of your ratio is one. Be sure to list your strength first.)

Hint:

When I read the problem the weight and strength scale down (and up) differently.So if I shrunk my height 10 times, then my weight would shrink by 1000 times (10 cubed), but my strength would shrink by 100 times (10 squared).

If I shrunk my height 2 times, then my weight would shrink by 8 times (2 cubed), but my strength would shrink by 4 times (2 squared). Use your height ratios in part 1 to figure out how much you are stretching or shrinking.

Part 3: Discussion

Type responses in blue to the discussion questions below.

It is often said that an ant can lift 10 times its weight, is that impressive? Use your values above to justify your answer.

What would the plot ofHoney I Blew Up the Kid actually be? Would it be very entertaining? (Think in terms of what couldn't you do if you were made very large.)

Read this article on Deep Sea Gigantism. Share 3 things you learned from this article.