1. Do Now: Write your homework in your agenda. Update your table of contents: Take out your homework to be checked!!!! Trade notebooks with the person across from you and answer each other’s HW problems. You have 10 extra minutes to finish the practice from yesterday if you hadn’t. If you finished already, you may start your homework for the 10 min. Page #Title 17-18SI Conversions

2. Homework Create a mnemonic for the SI prefixes and write it on page 18 Teacher’s example: KHDaBDiCM Kindly Help Daniel Bake Diet Cabbage Muffins i e e a e e i l c c s c n l ai o t a e i t l o i i

3. LengthMass Volume of a Liquid Volume of a Regular Solid Volume of an Irregular Solid 11.3 cm37.9 g9.2 mL13.824 cm 3 9 cm 3 2 cm198.6 g38 mL16.492 cm 3 5 cm 3 7.2 cm354.6 g3.9 mL35.308 cm 3 4 cm 3 6.1 cm215.9 g25 mL38.016 cm 3 0.4 cm 3 13.4 cm532.7 g2.7 mL20.16 cm 3 3 cm 3

4. Discuss: You are moving and you need boxes to move your “mountains-worth” of clothing. You go to store to buy some boxes but you don’t know what size to get. What size of box would you buy in this situation? Why?

5. Fill this in! k- h- da- d- c- m-

6. Which appropriate units do you use??? A fishing line of a fishing rod: meters or millimeters What are we measuring? _________________________ A post-it note: meters or millimeters What are we measuring? _________________________ The amount of water it takes to fill a pool: liter or milliliter What are we measuring? _________________________ A refrigerator: gram or kilogram What are we measuring? _________________________ The distance between Readington and NYC: meter or kilometer What are we measuring? _________________________ The almonds of a granola bar: gram or kilogram What are we measuring? _________________________

7. KILO 1000 Units HECTO 100 Units DEKA 10 Units DECI 0.1 Unit CENTI 0.01 Unit MILLI 0.001 Unit Meters Liters Grams Ladder Method How do you use the “ladder” method? 1 st – Determine your starting point. 2 nd – Count the “jumps” to your ending point. 3 rd – Move the decimal the same number of jumps in the same direction. 4 km = _________ m 1 2 3 How many jumps does it take? Starting Point Ending Point 4. 1 __. 2 3 = 4000 m

8. Let’s do the first few together! 1. 1000 mg = _______ g 2. 1 L = _______ mL 3. 160 cm = _______ mm 4. 14 km = _______ m 5. 109 g = _______ kg 6. 250 m = _______ km Conversion Practice

9. WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE TOP. Solve: 1) 2000 mL = _______ L 2) 0.89 m = _______ dm 3) 198 mm = _______ m 4) 0.22 kg = _______ cg 5) 11 hg = _______ mg 6) 540 dL = _______ kL EXIT SLIP