Summary
Converting metric units is as easy as sipping chocolate milk…unless you’re King Henry, that is! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby demonstrate how easy it is to convert centimeters to dekameters or kilograms to milligrams. Whether you’re dealing with length, mass, or volume, you’ll learn that each quantity is measured with one base unit. You’ll see how a range of new units can be created by adding prefixes to these units, and discover why the decimal point is key to converting between them. And you’ll find out exactly what King Henry, chocolate milk, and a nifty mnemonic have to do with it all!
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Metric Units:
- What is one new thing you learned about metric units?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining metric units.
- Draw or give one example of your own.