With help from the South Carolina Academy of Science, University of South Carolina, Center for Science Education, and Stem Centers across South Carolina 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 50%) 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).
- SC Metric Week October 8 – 14, 2023, Governor McMasters Metric Proclamation with opportunities for Students & Teachers [pdf]
- South Carolina 2023 Metric Week Governor McMaster Metric Proclamation with opportunities for Teachers and Students [pdf]
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Opportunities for Teachers & Students 2023 [pdf]
- Teaching metric to young students [pdf]
2023 Documents
| Document | Download File |
|---|---|
| (5) DoE Scale of Things Nano Micro, Macro 2022 | |
| (6) Test Metric and Nanotechnology 15 questions fold version 2022 Grades 6 - 12 Pages = 2 | |
| (7) Important in SI Metric Symbols and Usage for Metric Week 2022 pages = 2 | |
| (8) back Metric the choice is yours by dmj fall 2022 | |
| (9) Advantages of Teaching the Metric System Pages = 8 2022 | |
| (10) Art for School wall display Interrelationship between Lenght, Volume and Mass 2022 | |
| (11) Some Questions that Challenge Def of Ansgstrom & Order of Magnitude 2022 | |
| (12) Some Questions that Challenge Def of Ansgstrom & Order of Magnitude ANSWER KEY 2022 | |
| (13) Yocto 10^-24 to Yotta 10^24 in word has pronunciations Metric Prefixes 2022 | |
| (14) The area of your skin in cm^2 (BSA) For Metric Week 2022 Student Activity | |
| (15) Printiable 100 cm Measuring Tape | |
| (16) Instructions on how to make a Liter Box or dm^3 2022 Page 1 | |
| (17) Instructions on how to make Liter Box or dm^3 2022 page 2 | |
| (18) Template ( one half) of 10 cm Cube Page 1 (after printing check to see if each square is a cm by cm) | |
| (19) Template (one half) of 10 dm Cube Page 2 (after printing check to see if each square is a cm by cm) | |
| (20) A & B METWK 2023 Year Long Activ |