Worksheet – Significant Figures (Solutions)
Worksheet – Precision and Accuracy (Solutions)
Worksheet – The Rule of 5 (Solutions)
Worksheet – Metric Prefix Conversion (Solutions)
Most search engines will do unit conversions for you. For example, DuckDuckGo converting 3.1 micrograms to grams, Bing converting 1.0 m/s to km/h, and Google converting 10.3 kg/L to g/mL.
Worksheet – Unit Conversions (Solutions)
Worksheet – Weird Unit Conversions (Solutions)
Assignment – Unit Conversions for Another Culture
Media
When Significant Figures Grounded a Cruise Ship
Everyday Astronaut – Metric vs. Imperial – The Real Reason NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars (18:38)
TODO: Significant Figures when counting down at the end of a hockey game
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)
This is Barris – The History of the Metric System – The Metre (9:13)
Who Decides How Long a Second Is? – John Kitching (5:46)
The Time France Used Metric Time (4:06)
Karen Wright – Works in Progress: Measuring Mount Everest. Even the best technology in the world can’t seem to calculate how high this mountain really is
Behind the News – Measuring Mt. Everest (3:34)