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Units

This collection of STEM resources is based around the topic of units. Resources are listed in order of stage.

Temperature
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Temperature

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?

More or less?
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More or less?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Are these estimates of physical quantities accurate?
Bigger or smaller?
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Bigger or smaller?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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When you change the units, do the numbers get bigger or smaller?
Choose your units
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Choose your units

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Which units would you choose best to fit these situations?
A question of scale
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A question of scale

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?

Constantly changing
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Constantly changing

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.