Once and for all the link is: http://news.google.com/ search "metric system"
I think the rule ought to be: if you think its significant enough to be posted on Don's "Recently Published Articles" list, post it. Otherwise, we can all find it ourselves. Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian J White Sent: Tuesday, 2004 September 21 16:36 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:31161] Re: http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/176884-2831-014.html I think we should change the name of this mailing list to "Google searches on Metric that Euric thinks he should share with everyone" At 13:30 2004-09-21, Euric wrote: >Serving Hamilton and Boone counties and areas of Madison and Marion >counties fishers Olympics makes metrics fun >Students take part in events like cotton ball shot put to finish up >weeklong study unit. > >Hannah Pierce (left) and Tyler White weigh a container of marbles to >determine a competitor's standing in the right-handed marble grab in the >Mini Metric Olympics at Sand Creek Intermediate School. Every fifth-grader >competed in at least one event. -- AJ Mast / The Star > >By Holly VanSlambrook >Star correspondent >2004-09-08 > > >Daniel Rees raised a cotton ball shot put to his right ear, positioned >his >palm upward and catapulted. > >The cotton ball traveled 67 centimeters and earned Daniel, 11, a gold >medal in last week's Mini Metric Olympics at Sand Creek Intermediate >School in the Hamilton Southeastern district. > >"It's light, and it catches the air so it didn't go very far," Daniel >said, posing with silver and bronze medal winners for a photograph. > >More than 500 fifth-graders participated in the competition that capped >off a weeklong metrics unit. > >They rotated to five simulated Olympic events in teams with names like >Super Stars, Team USA, Froglegs and Jagtans (a combination of jaguars and >titans). > >Some students competed in each event, with everyone participating in at >least one. Classmates predicted winners and measured results. > >They used yardstick-like meter sticks to measure centimeters in the >shot >put, paper plate discus and drinking straw javelin events. > >Triple beam balances measured grams in the right-handed marble grab, >and >graduated cylinders recorded milliliters in the left-handed sponge squeeze. > >One centimeter equals just under one-half inch, one gram is about the >weight of a paper clip, and about five milliliters equal one teaspoon. > >Hannah Pierce, 11, took the gold for throwing a drinking straw more >than >466 centimeters. > >Alaina Werling, 10, captured a gold for squeezing 115 milliliters of >water >from a purple sponge into a plastic container. > >Tyler Lehnerz, 10, won a silver medal for his cotton ball throw of >about >60 centimeters. > >"It's OK. You don't expect to win everything," he said. > >Science teachers on five fifth-grade teams, dressed in improvised togas >of >various fabrics and laminated paper olive branch crowns, guided students >with instructions at each event. > >"Elbows up, palms up, catapult," teacher Kathy Giunta told shot put >throwers, and counseled, "Pick it up, one squeeze, put it back," during >the sponge squeeze. > >"This is a fun way to tie metrics into the Olympics," said teacher >Kirsten >Toner, herding students between paper plate discus and cotton ball shot >put events. > >The unit combined daily Olympic history trivia with lessons about >metric >length, mass and volume measurement. > >It fulfilled a portion of state standards for measurement and >capitalized >on students' interest in last month's Olympic Games in Athens. > >"I watched a lot of swimming, diving and gymnastics," said Gwen Debaun, >11. > >Gwen won a silver medal in the marble grab by transferring 66.1 grams >of >clear glass marbles between containers. > >It also familiarized students with what real-life scientists do, Giunta >said. > >"They need to know metrics because scientists (in any field) only use >the >metric system." >
