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Take Me To Your Liter !

Take Me To Your Liter !. How Did We Get English Units?. The Greeks developed the "foot" as their basic unit of length. Legend says that this Greek unit was based on an actual measurement of Hercules' foot.

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Take Me To Your Liter !

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  1. Take Me To Your Liter !

  2. How Did We Get English Units? • The Greeks developed the "foot" as their basic unit of length. • Legend says that this Greek unit was based on an actual measurement of Hercules' foot.

  3. People measured a yard of cloth by the distance between the end of the outstretched arm and their chin. The Romans measured their pace steps, of about 2.5 feet, 1000 double paces formed a mile.

  4. Where did we get the metric system ? The French created a standard unit of measurement called the metric system in 1790. This is today's international system of unit for measurement.

  5. Metrics is easier ! • Uses prefixes • Prefixes show whether a unit is larger or smaller than the base unit • Each prefix is a multiple of 10

  6. Does the USA use metrics? NO ! ! !

  7. Links to websites about metrics 1) Metric measurements http://cougar.slvhs.slv.k12.ca.us/~pboomer/physicslectures/ Website with physics lecture notes. Chapter 1 has unit on metrics, history of metrics 2) The metric system http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles3/metric /metric.html Unit on metrics, including history, conversions, worksheet, and an interactive metric converter 3) USA converting to Metrics http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer95/p95su14.htm USA converting to metrics 4) history of measurement http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/CS255/JONIEMI/metricsystem.html history of English measurement system and metric system 5) Gov doc about metrics http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/5425.htm additional reading about the metrics in the USA 6) u.s. metric association http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/ site with a lot of metric resources

  8. Where did we get this stuff ? 1) Metric graphic http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/12/02/csmimg/p23metric.jpg Pics of everyday objects with metric unit written on it 2) Footman graphic, milemen graphic http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/CS255/JONIEMI/metricsystem.html cartoons man with word “foot” and roman soldiers 3) metric cartoon http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/feettom1.jpg Metric cartoon from Farside cartoon series 4) grandpa cartoon http://simpsons.shafe.com/images/grandpa.gif Grandpa Simpson cartoon 5) Tool of the devil wav file http://www.moviewavs.com/cgi-local/tvwavs.cgi?Simpsons=metric.wav Grandpa Simpson sound file

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