Through colorful animations and common everyday examples, this video helps students learn how to measure length and temperature using the metric system. Both the Celsius and Kelvin temperature scales are explained in depth. Emphasis is placed on tools and techniques used to measure metric length, distance, and temperature. Other terminology includes: meter, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, kilometer, meter stick, odometer, thermometer, Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scale.

Originally released by Visual Learning, 2006. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 18, 2015.

Introduction: Metric Length and Temperature (1:14); --Measuring Length (1:13); -- Units of Measurement (2:45); -- Units of Metric Length and Distance (2:27); -- Measuring Length and Distance (2:35); -- Temperature in the Metric System (2:27); -- The Kelvin Scale (1:00); -- Summing Up (1:35); -- Video Quiz (2:56); -- Credits: Metric Length and Temperature (0:45); .