Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Standard Measures and Conversions: Liquid Volume, Milliliters and Liters

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase Media Gallery, explore key concepts about liquid volume, including standard units of liquid measure and how to convert between them. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create a complete conversion chart...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Standard Measures and Conversions Within a System: Solve the Measurement Problem!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Cyberchase media gallery, the Cybersquad must try to follow a recipe exactly to create a mixture that will help cure their friend Slider. At first, the squad must find a way to ensure standard measures of the ingredients. When...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Measurement Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This online quiz is multiple choice and consists of ten questions, some of which are word problems. The quiz concentrates on unit measurements and conversions, abbreviations, and angle measurements with the use of a protractor, and a...
Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measuring Weight

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measuring weight with definitions, units of measurement, and conversion.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Units and Conversion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review and practice using the metric system of measurement.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Metric Measurements: Units and Conversions

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Discusses how the metric system of measurement was developed and provides tables of unit conversions within the metric system, within the Imperial system, and between the two systems.
Handout
Other

Federal Highway Administration: Si (Modern Metric) Conversion Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Very complete chart of conversion factors for English to SI (metric) unit measurements and SI (metric) to English unit measurements. Includes length, area, volume, mass, temperature, illumination, and force & mass (stress).
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: At the Crossroads

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about making conversions between different types of units by negotiating with a trader at the crossroads. Practice exchanges with different measurement and currency systems in a simulation....
Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measurement including the metric system, surface area, perimeter, volume, area, time, solid shapes, unit conversion, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Measurement Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your measurement skills. Sheets focus on temperature, conversion, area and perimeter, volume, and more.
Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: General Science: Unit Conversion: Dimensional Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on the importance of unit conversion in science. Discussion includes unit consistency and dimensional analysis. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measuring Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about capacity with definitions, units of measurements, conversion, solved examples, and practice questions.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 1.2 Physical Quantities and Units

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Perform unit conversions in both SI and English units, Explain the most common prefixes of SI units, and be able to write them in scientific notation.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Conversion of Customary Units of Measurement

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among customary units of measurement by using factors and multiples.
Handout
Other

All math.com: Us/metric Conversion Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Convert metric measurements to U.S. Measurements and the reverse, too. Easy to follow tables have sections for area, length, mass,temperature and volume.
PPT
Frostburg State University

Frostburg State University: Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slideshow featuring the various methods of measurement. Identify and understand unit conversion on systems of measurement.
Lesson Plan
Other

Getting Life in Proportion: Scale and Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students will explore the use of pictures and maps to represent physical spaces. We will explore the concepts of scale and conversions between pictures, maps and real-world units. Conversions between kilometers and miles,...
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Other

Quiz Tree: Units of Measurement

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site offers free multiple choice quizzes for mastering measurement conversions. Metric and customary systems are both included.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
Handout
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities: Metric System Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using inquiry-based learning, students work in groups to devise metric conversion factors after analyzing example calculations. By finding inaccuracies in the problems given, students zero in on the correct methods of doing conversions.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Cemc: Metric Conversion [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This worksheet is designed for Grade 7 students. The students are expected to: i. understand both metric and customary systems of measurement ii. understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another within the same...
Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Unit Conversions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] By engaging in this activity, students will be able to perform unit conversions and properly use scientific notation.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Unit Conversions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to identify and use conversion factors and to also use the method of dimensional analysis to convert between units....
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides an interesting and easy-to-use dictionary of the history and meaning of many measurement terms. Metric, International, and...