1. Measurement
What fun!

2. Why Measure

3. Two Main Systems of Measurement Used
International System of Units- (SI) Metrics (units of 10)
Meter, Gram, Kilogram, liter
US Customary or Standard System
Inch, mile, yard, foot, pound, gallon, pint

4. METRIC SYSTEM (SI) Based on units of 10
Each unit is 10X bigger or smaller than the next unit.
Uses meter, gram, liter.
Prefix - precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or fraction of the unit.

5. Prefix (before base unit)
King – (Kilo) Means Thousand or 1000X
Henry- (Hecto) hundred or 100X
Doesn’t (Deca) ten or 10X
Usually Means base unit or 1X
Drink (Deci) Tenth or 0.1X or 1/10
Chocolate (centi)hundredth or 0.01 or 1/100
Milk (milli) Thousandth or or 1/1000

6. LENGTH

7. Length The measurement or extent of something from end to end
Base Unit Meter

8. Practice Prefixes A millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter
A kilogram is 1000x a gram

9. Conversion
Stand up and Measure the height (length) of your table buddy in meters – record in your notes
Convert to kilometers
What was the multiplier?
Convert to centimeters?

10. Weight the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass Base Unit Grams
What is your weight in Kg? Convert pounds to Kg (lbs / 2.2)
Convert to grams
Convert to milligrams

11. Volume
Units of volume include: The amount of 3-dimensional space an object occupies. Capacity.
Base Unit Liter or Metric: cubic centimeters (cm3), cubic meters (m3),

12. CONVERT A graduated cylinder has 1 Liter of liquid.
How much liquid in milliliters? How much liquid in kiloliters?
How much liquid in pints? pints
(2.11 pints in 1 liter or liters in each pint)
Complete these problems and show your work! Now show all these measurements of equal

13. THINK A Penny has a mass of approximately 2.5 grams.
How many pennies does it take to make 1 kg?
How many pieces would you need to break to two pennies into to have a mass of a milligram?

14. Volume of a cube
The height of a a cube is 1 meters, the length is 1 meter, and the width is 1 meter.
What is the capacity or volume of the cube? Make sure the units are correct.
What is this capacity or volume in mL
(1 cubic meter (m3) = 1000 mL

15. Use Ladder Method

16. Know This 1000 mL = 1 liter (they are the same)
100 cL = 1 liter (they are the same)
10 dl = 1 liter (they are the same)
Fill in the answers below
1 gram = mg (they are the same)
1 meter = cm (they are the same)
1 kilometer is meters (same)