1. Launch
Find your assigned seat, and silently fill out the student information sheet.
Please have you summer assignment on your desk.

2. Things you would measure
Measurement
Length
Volume
Mass
How long an object is.
How much space an object takes up
How much “stuff” (matter) something has. (Not weight!)
Definition
Height of a person
Distance between school and home
Amount of water in a bathtub
How much soup in a can
Mass of a car
Things you would measure

3. English vs. Metric Units
Length
Volume
Mass
Inch, foot, yard, mile
teaspoon, tablespoon, ounce, cup, quart, gallon,
Pounds (lbs), tons (2000 lbs)
English
Meter, millimeter, centimeter, kilometer
Liter, milliliter, centiliter, kiloliter
Gram, milligram, centigram, kilogram
Metric

4. NASA Mars Orbiter

5. Brain Break

6. Discussion Question 1 Challenge Question 1
If you wanted to know how far you can hit a tennis ball, what would you measure?
If you wanted to know how much space there is inside a tennis ball, what would you measure?
Challenge Question 1
Give an appropriate Metric and English unit that each of your answers above could be measured in.

7. Size of metric units Gram e.g: paper clip (nickel = 5 grams) Kilogram
e.g: 1000 paper clips, or a textbook, 1 kg mass

8. Size of metric units Liter e.g: water bottle Kiloliter
e.g: 1000 water bottles, or swimming pool

9. Size of metric units Meter e.g: meter stick Kilometer
e.g: 1000 meter sticks, 2.5 laps around the track, little less than a mile
Centimeter
e.g. width of thumb
Millimeter
e.g. thickness of thumb nail

10. Whiteboards With what unit would you measure…
The width of the door?
Millimeters
Centimeters
Liters
Meters

11. Whiteboards With what unit would you measure…
The thickness of the door?
Millimeters
Centimeters
Liters
Meters

12. Whiteboards With what unit would you measure…
The distance to downtown?
Millimeters
Centimeters
Kilometers
Meters

13. Whiteboards With what unit would you measure…
The mass of a stick of gum?
Grams
Milligrams
Liters
Kilograms

14. Whiteboards With what unit would you measure…
The mass of your friend?
Grams
Milligrams
Liters
Kilograms

15. Homework
Signed syllabus
HW1: Metric and English