Content Objective
Students will demonstrate knowledge of how to measure distance using metric tools and  units.

S.IP.07.13 Use tools and equipment (spring scales, stop watches, meter sticks and tapes, models, hand lens, thermometers, sieves, microscopes, hotplates, pH meters) appropriate to scientific investigations.

S.IP.07.14 Use metric measurement devices in an investigation.

Language Objective
Students will write to estimate and collect data during a distance measurement lab.

Today we looked a little bit at converting between units in the metric system.  (ie. 1 meter =100 centimeters, 1 meter = 1000 millimeters, 1 meter = 0.001 kilometers, 1 centimeter = 10 millimeters and 3.76 meters = 376 centimeters)

Homework – NONE