The Great Metric Scavenger Hunt

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1 The Great Metric Scavenger Hunt Find as many of the things listed below as humanly possible. Make all measurements to the nearest tenth of a unit. Be sure to give your answer in the units requested!! 1. The volume of twenty-five pennies in cubic centimeters 2. Someone whose hair is longer than four decimeters 3. The mass of a News and Journal (include the date of the paper.) 4. The definition of scavenger 5. The length of a teacher s shoe (not your Physical Science teacher!) 6. The mass of a piece of jewelry in decigrams (include a brief description of the jewelry 7. The height of this classroom form the floor to the ceiling 8. The year Archimedes died (use the Julian calendar) (212 BC) 9. The distance from the Earth to the Sun in kilometers (include your source and/or method) 10. The mass of a brand new #2 wooden pencil in dekagrams. 11. the length of your big toe in millimeters 12. The mass in grams of something plastic (State what it is too!) 13. The volume of a pack of index cards in cubic centimeters 14. The length of something metal in meters. 15. The depth of a classroom sink in centimeters 16. The mass of a dollar in change in grams. (state the combination of change that was used)

2 17. The volume of the door in cubic centimeters. (Show how you got your answer 18. The diameter of a CD in millimeters 19. The mass of a graduated cylinder in grams 20. The volume of ten paper clips in cubic centimeters 21. The maximum volume of water you can hold in your mouth in milliliters 22. the number of milliliters of Pepsi in a 2 liter bottle of Coke 23. The mass of you binder in grams 24. The mass of the Sun in grams 25. The distance from the front door of this room to the front door of the next nearest room in meters. 26. The mass in grams of a chocolate chip cookie (no nuts!) 27. The approximate volume of your math book (in cubic centimeters) 28. The mass in grams of ml of water 29. The area in square centimeters of your desk surface 30. Your height in kilometers 31. Your arm span in hectometers 32. The length of the visible portion of your front right incisor in millimeters 33. The deepest depth of the ocean on the Earth in kilometers 34. The depth of the Great Salt Lake in meters. 35. Mr. Moe s height in centimeters 36. The length of the clock in this room in kilometers.

3 37. The number of nanoseconds in a second 38. The mass of a meter stick in hectograms 39. The volume in milliliters of soda in a 12 ounce can 40. The mass of a baseball cap in grams 41. The thickness of someone s eyeglasses in kilometers 42. The boiling point of water in degrees Celsius 43. The freezing point of water in degrees Celsius 44. The thickness of a dictionary in millimeters 45. The circumference of a tree in meters 46. The volume of a meter stick in cubic centimeters 47. The distance between George Washington s eyes on the one dollar bill in millimeters 48. The length in meters of pi printed out to 40,000 decimal places if each number has a width of 2.0 millimeters. Metric Scavenger Hunt Rules 1. All measurements and information must be collected by the members of your group and no one else. 2. Do not copy from other groups or let others copy from you. This would be considered cheating for both parties involved. 3. All group members must be active participants. Any observed slackers will be required to restart the hunt individually making all measurements under the supervision of the teacher 4. Students may leave the classroom during class only with a pass from their teacher which he/she will issue only after you have explained to him/her what you are going to

4 measure and how you plan to measure it. You must go directly to the object to be measured and come directly back. Your teacher will then give you a pass and a time limit. If you need more time, check back with the teacher for permission. Metric Scavenger Hunt Code of Honor and Answer Sheet I the undersigned hereby solemnly swear to abide by the rules printed on the Metric Scavenger Hunt. I understand that sharing information is considered cheating. I will do my best to help my group gather as much information as is humanly possible. Student Signature Date:

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