If you know how much carbon dioxide you produce in one breath, can you figure out how much you produce in one month? Socratica helps solve multi-step unit conversion problems. The video walks through how to set up these challenges and how to solve them. It even offers tips for making sure everything ends up in the right units.

Concepts

unit conversion, unit conversions, dimensional analysis

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create more of these multi-step dimensional analysis problems
• Challenge scholars to create a real unit conversion problem to stump you; remember, they must know the correct answer

Classroom Considerations

• Assumes prior knowledge of the information in the first video in the two-part series

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes a list of helpful books for those wanting to learn more
• Offers subtitles in English for ease of note taking

Cons

• None

Common Core

6.RP.A.3.d RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4