SI Base Units, Derived Units, Unit Prefixes

A 93 slide PowerPoint presentation with worksheets that covers the following areas:

• SI Units
• SI Derived Units
• SI Prefixes
• SI Prefix Conversions

Depending on class ability and how tasks are used, this should be 1-2 lessons, or 1.5-2 hours of teaching.

Included are six different worksheets/activities. There is a comprehension task based on when unit measurements goes wrong. There is a worksheet to fill in for collating information based on SI units. There is an optional graphing task that allows students to determine absolute zero. There are two information hunt tasks, with associated information cards, based on SI Derived Units and SI Prefixes. There is also a task on conversion of SI Prefixes.