Materials and Resources
Printed Materials

• Anno, M. (1995). Anno’s magic seeds. New York: Philomel Books.
• Barry, D. (1994). The rajah’s rice. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.
• Birch, D. (1993). The king’s chessboards. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Scott Foresman.
• Demi. (1997). One grain of rice. New York: Scholastic.
• Hertzberg, H. (1993). One million. New York: Times Books, 1993.
  This book is a nice accompaniment to the Lots of Dots* Web site exploration during the scavenger hunt of big numbers.
• McGuffee, M. and Diane G. (1998). One in a billion. Cooper City, FL: SpanPress.
• McKibbon, H. W. (1996). The token gift. Vancouver, Canada: Annick Press.
• Morgan, R. (1999). In the next three seconds. London: Puffin.
• Nolan, H. (2001. How much, how many, how far, how heavy, how long, how tall Is 1,000? Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press.
• Packard, E. (2000). Big numbers. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press.
• Schwartz, D. M. (1998). G Is for googol. New York: Tricycle Press.
• Schwartz, D. M. (1985). How much Is a million? New York: William Morrow.
• Schwartz, D. M. (1989). If you made a million. Parsippany, NJ: Pearson Learning.
• Schwartz, D. (1999). On beyond a million. New York: Doubleday.

Supplies

• Rice and small measuring tools for rice activity
• Posters for final project
• String or fishing line to display the posters in the school
• Markers for creating posters
• Index cards or small pieces of paper for exit passes

Internet Resources

• Ask Dr. Math
  http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/elem_large_numbers.html*
  Dr. Math responds to large numbers questions
• A Feel for Big Numbers With Grains of Salt
  www.vendian.org/envelope/dir0/grain_feel.html*
  Descriptions of what kinds of places large numbers of grains of salt can fill
• "What Order of Magnitude Is ...?" Game
  www.vendian.org/envelope/dir0/what_order_is.html*
  Explanation of strategies for determining order of magnitude
• Counting to 10 Billion... on Your Fingers
  www.vendian.org/envelope/dir0/counting_on_fingers.html*
  Diagrams to show how ten billion can be represented with your hands 
• The MegaPenny Project
  www.kokogiak.com/megapenny*
  A project to help students visualize large numbers using pennies
• Names for Big Numbers
  www.stormloader.com/ajy/bignum.html#ten9*
  Explanation of the background naming of big numbers
• 87 Billion Dollars
  www.crunchweb.net/87billion*
  Diagrams and pictures to help visualize 87 billion dollars
• Lots of Dots
  www.vendian.org/envelope/dir2/lots_of_dots*
  The use of dots to help show big numbers
• United Nations Cyberschoolbus
  http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/basic.asp*
  Creates charts on selected countries using data selected by the user

 Technology—Hardware

• Computer for Internet research
• Printer to print final projects
• Internet connectivity to connect to Web sites

Technology—Software

• Presentation program to present final projects
• Word processing or desktop publishing to create final project posters
• Internet browser to search Web sites

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