Chemical synthesis
|
10-5 |
|
Neurotransmitter synthesis
|
Membrane
process
|
10-4 |
|
Ligand binding |
Neural firings
|
10-3 |
|
Neuron process |
Neuronal
patterns
|
10-2 |
|
Multi-neuron process |
|
Vocal articulation |
10-1 |
|
Edge of awareness |
|
Utterance |
1-10 seconds |
|
Word, holophrase, short monologue; in context |
|
Exchange |
2- 102 |
Seconds to minutes |
Dialogue; interpersonal relations ;
developing situation |
|
Episode |
103 |
o(15 minutes) |
Thematic, functional unit; speech genre, educative |
|
Lesson |
103 – 104 |
Hour |
Curriculum genre |
|
Lesson sequence |
104 |
o(2.75 hours) |
Macro curriculum genre |
|
School day |
105 |
Day |
[“seamless day”] |
|
Unit |
106 |
11.5 days |
Thematic, functional unit |
|
Unit sequence |
|
|
[rare] |
|
Semester/ Yr Curriculum |
107 |
4 Months |
Organizational level; unit in next scale |
|
Multi-year Curriculum |
108 |
o(3.2 years) |
Organizational level; limit of institutional planning |
|
Lifespan Educational Development |
109 |
o(32 years) |
Biographical timescale; Identity change |
|
Educational system change |
1010 |
o(320 years) |
Historical timescale; New institutions |
Note: o(time) means times on the order of magnitude of
...
|
Worldsystem change |
1011 |
3200 years |
New cultures, languages; limit of historical records |
|
Ecosystem, climate change |
1012 |
32,000 years |
|
|
|
1013 |
320,000 years |
Last ice age |
|
Evolutionary change |
1014 |
3.2 million years |
Scale of human evolution |
|
|
1015 |
32 million years |
Dinosaurs |
|
|
1016 |
317 million years |
Pangaea |
|
Planetary change |
1017 |
3.2 billion years |
Origin of life, of planet |
|
Universal change |
1018 |
32 billion years |
Cosmological processes |