CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: At the Crossroads
[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....
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World Wide Metric Calculator
Do you need a quick conversion from metric units to imperial units or just the reverse? Use this resource for conversions of length, weight, pressure, and volume.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Measures
A huge collection of teacher resources to aide in the teaching of all types of metric measurement: length, distance, mass, weight, capacity, and volume. Activities include measuring, estimating, converting, investigating, and finding...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Metric Conversion at a Glance
This activity is designed to give students an easy way to convert one metric measurement to another rather than the traditional fraction approach. Students will learn common metric prefixes, kilo, hecto, deca, deci, centi, and milli and...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Metric 5 E Metric Conversions
Practice with metric conversions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Metric Rules
In this activity, students will collect data by measuring different linear objects and develop a strategy to determine the conversion factors required to convert from one linear measurement to another.
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Quiz Tree: Units of Measurement
This site offers free multiple choice quizzes for mastering measurement conversions. Metric and customary systems are both included.
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Conversions for Time Measurement
This site allows you to convert various time measurements. Example seconds to days.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Converting Metric Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will know: Customary and Linear Measurement Vocabulary, How to use the conversion table for customary and metric units of length to convert units of measurement, How to add and subtract units...
abcteach
Abcteach: Math: Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find a variety of worksheets, booklets, conversion charts, warm-up activities and more on measurements. There is even one activity that could be used in a French language class which...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: A Penny for Your Height
In this activity, students study English to Metric conversions. They investigate the relationship between inches and centimeters by measuring their height in these units and converting the measurements.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Between Metric and Standard Systems: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how to convert between the customary and metric systems. It is 3 of 6 in the series titled "Converting Between Metric and Standard Systems."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Between Metric and Standard Systems: Lesson 1
This lesson demonstrates how to convert between the customary and metric systems. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Converting Between Metric and Standard Systems."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Units: Lesson 3
This lesson will describe how to convert from unit to another in the Metric System. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Converting Units."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Converting Units: Lesson 5
This lesson will describe how to convert from unit to another in the Metric System. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Converting Units."
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Conversions for Weight Measurements
This site allows you to convert weight/mass measurements. For example converting tons to grams. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.A.2 Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Converting to the Metric System
An introduction to the metric system and converting to the metric system. Provides a table of common conversions and steps for converting a cookie recipe to the metric system.
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Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts
What kind of unit conversion would you like to do? This site will allow you to do a multitude of conversions. Just click on the specific measurement you are needing to convert. It also provides a history of measurements and a chart of...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
Math Frog: Metric 4 Modified
Basic practice with metric conversions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measuring
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart converted from Power Point to show the metric conversions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Unit Conversions
[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....
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Fruits and Vegetables [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use understanding of measurement to convert accurately between units of weight.
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German Corner Cooking Index
The German Corner offers German and German-American recipes in English. Recipe titles, however, are in German. Recipes are alphabetized and categorized as Amish, Mennonite, Pennsylvania Dutch, Shaker or generally German. Information on...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Unit Reasoning Lesson
Unit reasoning helps us make sense of measurements by converting between measurement units and making reasonable estimates. For the Praxis test, we need to know common measurement units for length, time, volume, and mass, as well as how...