Zooming out, way out

This is a video from Charles and Ray Eames from 1977, showing an aerial view zooming out, and then back in. We have been studying maps, and have been making maps of small-scale places: the classroom, the school, the playground. We are starting to zoom out, though, looking at a map of Massachusetts (and practicing spelling it!) and then looking at the whole world later this week.



You can describe our address in the same way, starting small and local and moving to larger and larger scales of reference.

room	Room 204
school	JR Lowell School
address	175 Orchard Street
city	Watertown
state	Massachusetts
country	United States of America
continent	North America
planet	Earth
solar system	The Solar System
galaxy	The Milky Way
galaxy group	The Local Group
universe	The Universe