With help from the State Department of Education, the South Carolina Academy of Science and University of South Carolina, Center for Science Education, copies of this proclamation are emailed to all school principals in the State, and to all sponsors of both the South Carolina Junior Academy of Science (SCJAS), the South Carolina Middle and Elementary School Academy of Science (MESAS), and the Leading Teachers for the Department of Defense South Carolina Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for use in Metric Week activities and promotions. Our nation has partially (more than 40%) adopted the Metric System, and its usage continues to increase as awareness grows.
Metric Proclamation is emailed to all schools in South Carolina, public, private, chartered and home schools and includes year around activities developed by the staff of the Center for Science Education for students and teachers to use. This project is also coordinate with the National Institute of Science &Technology (NIST).
Metric Week Documents
- Cover Letter [pdf]
- SC Metric Week 2020 October 4 -10 [pdf]
- National Institute of Science & Technolgy (NIST) Metric [pdf]
- A & B - METWK 2020 YEAR LONG Activities pages = 2 [pdf]
- DoE Scale of Things Nano Micro, Macro 2020 [pdf]
- Test Metric and Nanotechnology 15 questions fold version 2020 Grades 6 - 12 [pdf]
- Important in SI Metric Symbols and Usage for Metric Week 2020 [pdf]
- Front Metric True and False Quiz 2020 [pdf]
- back Metric the choice is yours by dmj fall 2020 [pdf]
- Advantages of teaching the metric system, Definitions of metric terms and Questions that strenghhen understading of metric. 2020 [pdf]
- Art for School wall display Interrelationship between Lenght, Volume and Mass 2020 [pdf]
- Some Questions that Challenge Def of Ansgstrom & Order of Magnitude 2020 [pdf]
- Some Questions that Challenge Def of Ansgstrom & Order of Magnitude ANSWER KEY 2020 [pdf]
- Yocto 10^24 to Yotta 10^24 in word has pronunciations Metric Prefixes 2020 [pdf]