The metric system of measurement is used in all branches of science and more experiences are needed to become more comfortable and competent with this system of measurement and some basic laboratory equipment.
A good introduction to this segment is the filmstrip “A History of Measurement” by Learning Resource Company,
This filmstrip traces the early standards of measurement and the problems with these standards to the presently accepted standards of the metric system.
We will concern ourselves with the measurement of mass (grams), volume (liters), length (meters), temperature (celsius), and the prefixes kilo (1000), centi (1/100), and milli (1/1000) with our measurements.
