MEASURMENT

MASS, LENGTH AND VOLUME

HAVE YOU MEASURED ANYTHING
TODAY?
• Have you measured an object?
• Have you measured an interval of time?
• Have you measured the weight of an object?
• How did you measure it?
 AIMS

• Looking at Assumptions
• Revisit units of length, volume and mass
• Investigate how we measure these units
 BASIC QUANTITIES

• The unit of Length is the meter (m)

• What are some multiples of this?
• The unit of Area is meter squared (m2)
• The unit of Volume is meters cubed (m3)

• The unit of Mass is the kilogram (kg)

• What are some multiples?

• The unit of Time is seconds (s)

 MEASURING OBJECTS

• Using prior knowledge take the most accurate

measurements of the following
Friends height
Length of pen
Diameter of a coin
Thickness of a
piece of paper
Width of string
Volume of metal
cube
Volume of a rock

• How can we be more accurate?

 HUMAN REACTION TIME

• How do we measure time?

• Reaction time concepts
• Mental Processing time
• Movement time
• Device time
• What are some instances where your reaction time
can be very important?

• How far does the ruler drop?

Attempt 1 2 3 4 5
Distance
• Did you improve with each try?
 PENDULUM

• http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/pendulum-
lab/pendulum-lab_en.html