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 | Barb's People Builders - Books for Children, Education, and Homeschooling has a set of four workbooks with answer key book for the teaching of metric units to children in grades 4 through 12. These workbooks can be purchased individually or as a set.
Book 1: Metric Units of Length
Book 2: Measuring Length and Perimeter Using Metric Units
Book 3: Finding Area and Volume Using Metric Units
Book 4: Metric Units for Mass, Capacity, Temperature, and Time
Answers and Notes for Books 1-4 |
| | A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - This site goes beyond the standard definitions of units. The site has good depth on the use of metric unit prefixes, how to write them, and symbols and abbreviations. There is also a history of U.S. measurement and information on other measurement units. |
| | Innovation Through Engineering is a NASA educational product that contains metric activities associated with the Wright Brothers' flight experiments. Activities include constructing and testing a sled kite, analyzing the data, and assembling a Metric Cube. The poster with complete educational activity contents is available at the NASA site as a downloadable PDF file. This is an excellent resource for the classroom. |
| USA Gov for Kids - A Federal Consumer Information Center site that is billed as "U.S. Government Interagency Kids' Portal" with twenty categories of activities for children. |
| Leader's Guide for Conducting a Metric Usage Seminar - This document was created by the U.S. Metric Board with the purpose of providing background and tools to conduct a metric usage seminar based on hands-on learning opportunities for the participants. The seminar consists of background on the metric system, learning metric terms, and practicing making metric measurements. The exercises are designed to help people learn to "think metric" in their daily lives. |
| NIST Metric Pyramid (LC1140) - a three-dimensional pyramid that can be cut out and assembled. The pyramid has a list of the metric symbols, and conversion factors for area, temperature, length, and mass. |
| NIST Children's Activity Cards - a sheet of printable activity cards that the children can imprint with their name, height, and weight in metric units. (Print off a master copy to replicate as needed. Cut the cards apart at the indicated crop lines.) |
| NIST Bookmark - a sheet of printable ruled bookmarks with visual references to metric measurement units. (Print off two master copies of the attached file, photo copy them back-to-back, and cut them at the indicated crop lines.) |
| | Metric Fast Facts for Sports - A real-life comparison of metric units as they relate to sporting activities. |
| | Think Metric - The goal of this site is to make business and educators more metric aware. There are games, tools, and posters to assist in the learning and using of metric units. The site also has conversion tables for length, area, temperature, and volume. |
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Date created: March 28, 2002
Date Last Modified: October 26, 2007
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