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This powerpoint is on the metric system and solving problems using dimensional analysis. It consists of 19 slides that are colorful, informative and visually stimulating. Please download my free preview. The preview consists of 6 random slides from the presentation.

Topics covered are:
1) The International System of Units
2) The seven base units in the SI System
3) Advantages of using the SI system
4) SI Prefixes: giga, mega, kilo, hecto, deca, deci, centi, milli, micro, and nano
5) Units used in measuring length, mass and volume
6) Practice problems to check for understanding
7) The steps to follow to solve a problem using dimensional analysis
8) Practice problems using dimensional analysis
9) Problems on converting between units. These start very easy and get harder. Some examples: Convert km to m, convert km to dm, convert g/cm3 to kg/m3.

This powerpoint was written with a physical science or chemistry class in mind. It can easily be edited. Middle school teachers may simply want to delete a few of the harder problems. Honors teachers can easily include a few extra details or some harder problems..

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This product is included on my Science Skills CD, a shipped item. The CD contains 51 different products on science skills, including metric system, scientific method, scientific notation, graphing, significant digits and more.

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