Monday, February 2 – Unit Conversion Assignment

Current unit: Measurement

• Attendance
  • Sit where you were last week
  • Make sure your name is on a popsicle stick
  • Get a computer and log on
    • Begin by restarting the computer – if it says other users are logged on, push and hold the power button for 15 seconds to hard reset the computer
  • Phones away
• Grace Hopper was a US Navy rear admiral who was a pioneer in the field of computer programming.
  • Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (2:03)
• Review homework
  • Worksheet – Unit Conversions
    • Worksheet Solutions – Unit Conversions
  • Worksheet – Weird Unit Conversions
    • Worksheet Solutions – Weird Unit Conversions
• Assignment – Unit Conversions for Another Culture
  • Use smallest number of significant figure in the question (including the conversion rates) for your answer
  • Random groups
  • Due by end of class
• Wrap-up
  • Submit assignment before you leave
  • Tomorrow, we start learning kinematics (distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration)