Showing posts with label 1. Length and distance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1. Length and distance. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Day 6: Let's prepare slides for the oral project presentation

It's time for summarizing. Today you'll sit in groups together and you should start designing some slides for the oral presentation. Your presentation must contain:
  • Length and distance issues
  • Metric system length units. 
  • Conversion within the metric system.
  • Imperial system vs. metric system.
  • Vocabulary
  • Your opinion about the project
Next day you'll present your slides to the class. To evaluate the oral presentation, we'll use the following rubrics.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Day 4: Imperial system vs metric system (I)


Do you know that in the UK and in the US sometimes people use another system for measuring? This system is called Imperial system.

Activities

  1. Build a table with the correspondence between metric and imperial system for length, area, volume and mass measuring units
  2. Information and online activities
  3. Conversion charts

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Day 3: Metric system unit conversion

Today we'll watch some vídeos from Khan Academy about mètric System unit conversion. You have to solve the problema before watching the video. Afterwards, you can check if you made the calculations right.

Unit conversion within the metric system

Converting within the metric system

Perimeter and unit conversion

Applying the metric system

Conversion between metric units

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Day 2: Vídeo. Why learn about length and distance?

Today we'll talk about the importance of learning about length and distance. First of all we'll watch a short BBC video. Afterwards we'll discuss it a little bit and at the end we'll fill in an activity.

Complementary work