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Sent: Sunday, 2003-11-02 20:20
Subject: [USMA:27406] presentation
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presentation outline Hi Mathew I
have some ideas about your presentation outline. It would be good if you
can show them a meter stick, if you can't tell them that the distance between
a door knob and the floor is a meter.
If you are in an office or
classroom, bring along a metre stick or a tape measure, as mentioned
above. Have someone other then yourself measure the distance from the
door knob to the floor. Let them see for themself it is 1 m off of the
ground.
A degrees C thermometer would be a good
idea. If you talk about weight tell them how many average sized apples
are in a kg.
Better yet, show them! Bring
in differnt bags of fruits (or familiar objects), all weighing (or having a
mass of) 1 kg. This way people can see it and maybe even hold
it.
I feel they would need something they
could see to get a picture in their minds eye. I feel if you make
it simple with things they can relate to as far as distance and weight people
are a lot smarter than the anti metric people give them credit. It would
probably be a good thing to have a liter container with you and maybe compare
it with a quart container so they can see the difference.
Yes, bring along if you can, a 500
mL, a 1 L and a 2 L pop bottle. You can fill them with water and if you
have a scale, you can weigh them to show that their mass is 1:1 with their
volume. Thus 500 mL = 500 g, 1000 mL (1 L) = 1 kg; 2000 mL (2 L) = 2
kg. You can even show them that if you remove half of the water in a 2 L
bottle, you have 1 L and its mass is 1 kg.
DO NOT bring a quart of
anything. Never compare. Most people are not that familiar with
imperial units and a comparison would only distract from learning metric
sizes.
Hope that helps you Mat.
