Launch Find your assigned seat and silently fill

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

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

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

NASA Mars Orbiter

Brain Break

Discussion 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.

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

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

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

Whiteboards With what unit would you measure… The width of the door? a. Millimeters b. Centimeters c. Liters d. Meters

Whiteboards With what unit would you measure… The thickness of the door? a. Millimeters b. Centimeters c. Liters d. Meters

Whiteboards With what unit would you measure… The distance to downtown? a. Millimeters b. Centimeters c. Kilometers d. Meters

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

Whiteboards With what unit would you measure… The mass of your friend? a. Grams b. Milligrams c. Liters d. Kilograms

Homework Signed syllabus HW 1: Metric and English