Learning about Metric Measures
Learning about Metric Measures
Follow the languid exploits of Jim, a wide-eyed elementary student w/ freckles and light red hair as he plots a science/math project accurately depicting the distance between the sun and the earth. Beware, this film is meticulous and extremely slow in its pace exactly as how you remember it. MS/CUs Jim working on project, only to get frustrated and quietly despondent with the limitations of traditional American units of measuring. ECUs paper, ruler, math problems. Professional engineer Dad offers son Jim his meter stick. ECU stick. MSs Jim working w/ meter stick, creating mock-meter stick w/ sheet of cardboard. Explanation of decimeters, centimeters, millimeters. Too many CUs meter stick as Jim & his trusty sharpened No. 2 pencil count units. ECU calipers measuring on meter stick CUs Jim working out science/math project. MS Jim blowing up enormous balloon (representing the sun). Jim finally leaves the dim working space he has subjected himself to and wanders outside to finalize the project. MS/CUs Jim hammering stake into ground, placing ball bearing-- representing the earth on top, then measuring distance to sun model. Test