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Metric Conversion Calculator and Charts
Metric Conversions offers online calculators for making conversions, downloadable tables in many types of metric conversion (pdf format), and free conversion tools to put onto your website or dynamic pages.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Tired Weight
Learn how the air pressure in tires can be used to determine the weight of an automobile.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Light Weights
Could the location of the Olympic host city have an effect on weightlifting events? This activity provides an interesting context in which to engage with weight, mass and gravitation, and is aimed at A-level students (grades 10, 11, and...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Mass vs. Weight
A tutorial exploring the relationship between mass and weight. The tutorial also explains the difference between the concepts through pictures and examples.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What Being Overweight Means?
This resource provides information about obesity, and the importance of weight control.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Masa Y Peso
Is the mass the same as the weight? Try this little experiment to find out the answer.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for My Height?
Finding out your correct weight is difficult because everyone's body type is different. This site addresses that concern and answers questions that surround this issue. Links to related sites are also offered.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Heavy Helicopters
Students learn about weight and drag forces by making paper helicopters and measuring how adding more weight affects the time it takes for the helicopters to fall to the ground.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hanging Around
Students learn about weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Strawkets and Weight
In this activity, students investigate the effect that weight has on rocket flight. Students construct a variety of their own straw-launched rockets, or "strawkets," that have different weights. Specifically, they observe what happens...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wheeling It In!
In an open-ended design activity, students use everyday materials (milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy) to build a small-scale transportation device. They incorporate the use of a wheel and axle, and lever into their...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Weight
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the relationship between the mass and the weight of an object. Students will study the properties of common materials and why airplanes use specific materials.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rocket Me Into Space
One of the exciting challenges for engineers is the idea of exploration. This lesson looks more closely at Spaceman Rohan, Spacewoman Tess, their daughter Maya, and their challenges with getting to space, setting up satellites, and...
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: High Blood Pressure
This article presents information about high blood pressure. The article is medium size in length, provides great information on the subject, and has two charts that relate to the subject.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Find the Weight in Compound Units for Multiple Items
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read the scales for two items and record the weights in compound metric units. [1:22]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Finding Weight in Compound Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read a scale and record the weight in compound metric units. [1:08]
National Institutes of Health
Niddk: The Health Risks of Being Overweight
This site from NIDDK provides an article and weight for height chart. Discusses Type 2 diabetes and associated health problems and effective preventative measures.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: Hypertension Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Disease in the Elderly
This article from the American Family Physician journal discusses medical research on the treatment of hypertension and its role in preventing coronary heart disease. Read about how doctors are treating and preventing hypertension and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Growth Factor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Identification of Equivalent Units of Weight
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of weight.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Selection of Appropriate Weight or Capacity Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose the appropriate customary units of weight or capacity given various measurement situations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Conversion of Ounces Into Pounds and Ounces
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to convert weight from ounces into pounds and ounces. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:37] and a set of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Conversion of Pounds and Ounces Into Ounces
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to convert weight from pounds and ounces into just ounces. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:05] and a set...
Math Slice
Math Slice: Weight
This resource allows students to practice converting metric or customary units of weight. Students are able to select parameters that include metric or customary units and difficulty level. There are ten problems with instant feedback...