[USMA:31167] Re: http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/176884-2831-014.html

[Euric]

Not everyone bothers to look.  So it doesn't hurt if one of us does and 
posts them here.

It is funny that the only postings now are related to the posting of the 
articles and not to the content.

Euric
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-09-21 16:48
Subject: [USMA:31165] Re: 
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/176884-2831-014.html


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."