Eighth-grade students at Crispell Middle School are learning about metric conversions and the tools to use to get there! In Allie Peifer’s class, students identified those tools and then put them to use in different situations. They had beakers, test tubes and an electronic scale, to name a few.

 

 

One of the benefits of the metric system of measurement is that it is possible to convert from one unit to another simply by multiplying or dividing by a power of 10! We can make a conversion simply by moving the decimal point to the right or the left!

 

 

The common units of measure in the metric system are: meter (for length), liter (for volume) and gram (for mass). A millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter. A kilogram is 1,000 grams.

 

 

The students certainly enjoyed the hands-on lab, giving them the opportunity to learn which tools to use in different situations for conversions.