Quantities
The quantity measured by grams
What is mass?
A swimming pool might contain 10,000 ______ of water.
What are liters?
A tool to measure the width of a classroom.
What is a meter stick?
100 grams = __________ kilograms
What is 0.1 kilograms?
15 centimeters = __________ decimeters
What are 1.5 decimeters?
The quantity I would use to represent the amount of water in a bottle.
What is liter?
The units used to measure mass.
What are grams?
A tool to measure the amount of "stuff" in an apple.
What is a triple beam balance or electronic balance/scale?
10 hectoliters = ___________ liters
What are 1000 liters?
270 liters = ________ decaliters
What are 27 decaliters?
The quantity measured with a triple beam balance.
What is mass?
One example of a customary unit for length or distance.
What are inches, feet, yards, miles, furlongs, fathoms, rods, picas, points....?
A tool to measure small amounts of liquid.
1000 centimeters = ___________ meters
What are 10 meters?
1000 millimeters = __________ meters
What is 1 meter?
The quantity measured in units of meters.
What is length or distance?
The base unit for time.
What are seconds?
A tool to measure larger quantities of liquid.
What is a beaker?
1 milliliter = ____________ centiliters
What are 0.1 centiliters
1 kilogram = _________ centigrams
What are 100,000 centigrams?
Challenge: The TWO quantities used in a representation of density (think back to science class!)
The units that would be appropriate for measuring the amount of candy in a jar (two options....justify your answer)
What are liters (if measuring volume) or grams (if measuring mass)?
Name any other metric measurement tool you can think of other than those on the foldable (i.e. not a meter stick, beaker, graduated cylinder, triple beam balance, electronic balance, or scale)
What can you think of?
12,345 decagrams = _________ kilograms
What are 123.45 kilograms?
1 mile = ____________ feet
What are 5,280 feet? (This is why we like metrics better!)