Measurement
The Metric System: Metric and Scientific Notation
Resources
OnlineConversion.com - Over 5,000 units, and 30,000 conversions.
F. Senese, Frostburg State U. - From General Chemistry Online, tutorials on converting scientific units.
Ben-Cam Intermedia - An extensive unit conversion calculator.
A user friendly metric and other unit conversion calculator.
Further Exploration
The Metric System - A Concise Reference
D. Bartlett - As titled, a concise guide to using the metric system.
Math Skills Review: Scientific Notation
Texas A & M university - a resource of scientific notation practice.
National Institute of Standards - A guide to units and the metric system.
National Institute of Standards and Technology - Reference to metric conversion products and scientific sites.
The Metric System - how it got its name
from the Mad Scientist network
Anglo-Saxon Weights and Measures
NIST - A history of U.S. efforts to go metric.
News & Events
Metric Error Dooms Mars Orbiter
CNN
News from around the world of science.
Research
Google - Research database allows searching of the scholarly literature.
Experiment!
Digital Dutch - A fast, easy to use conversion calculator.
F. Senese - an interactive tutorial on measurement uncertainty.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States
National Academies Press: A Framework for K-12 Science Education
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