Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Metrics in the Home and in the Store
In this lesson plan site, students will compare SI unit (metric) measurements of common household items and their English equivalents.
Other
St. James Public Schools: Measurements and Metrics
Test your knowledge of measurements and metrics by taking this ten-question self-scoring practice quiz.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Metric System
This lesson plan familiarizes young scholars in grades 4-6 with using the metric system and performing conversions.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Converting Metric and u.s. Length
Students convert between metric and customary units of length in a series of self-check exercises and timed learning games.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide Unit Conversions & Problem Solving With Metric Measurement
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in unit conversions and problem solving with metric measurement.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: English Bus: Measurement: Meters
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a school. Those skills include using centimeters and meters to compare lengths, and recognizing when a unit smaller than meters are required.
Other
Interactive Learning Paradigms: Volume Unit Conversions
Learn the units of volume measurement. Page includes a conversion calculator, information about the metric system, and numerous links to other relevant material.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics I: Appendices: Useful Information
This page provides eight tables of useful information such as Important Constants, Submicroscopic Masses, Solar System Data, Metric Prefixes for Powers of Ten and Their Symbols, The Greek Alphabet, SI units, Useful Formulae, and other...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Metric System
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for discussion regarding use of metric system and conversions in chemistry. Includes links to websites for further discussion, to a Power Point Slideshow for teaching conversion, to a...
Other
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Length & Measuring With Fractions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart involves investigating various lengths in Metric and US Customary. Students will work on finding lengths to the sixteenths. The flipchart can be used with Everyday Math, Unit 10.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Estimate Volume (Milliliters and Liters)
A practice quiz where students must choose the appropriate metric unit and amount to estimate the volume of each object. Includes hints.
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.
TOPS Learning Systems
Top Science: Decimal Bounce [Pdf]
An activity where students learn the meanings of metric prefixes, and how to use them with decimal numbers and with different units of measurement.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Converting English Lengths
Practice converting lengths from one British unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Litres to Millilitres
This page explains the relation between liters and milliliters and the conversion between these units. Included are solved examples and interactive problems for review.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: How to Convert Metric to Imperial
Simple steps and examples to help you convert metric measurements to Imperial units. Use a Metric - Imperial Conversion Chart as a reference.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Measurement: Metric Conversions
This lesson plan has a game to help pupils convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Metric Length
The different units used to measure metric length are described, with comparisons to real world objects. A wonderful number line also shows the relative sizes of things all the way from a quark to the universe in powers of ten.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metric Conversions Word Problems
Practice metric length, volume, and mass problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Converting Units: Lesson 5
This lesson introduces the concept of a conversion factor and explains how it can be used to convert between metric to metric units as well as between English and metric units for different quantities. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Si System
A tutorial which introduces the International System of Units, and its use in making measurements during scientific investigation.