Science Matters is designed to educate and inform viewers about science topics relevent to their lives and the world in which we live. Each Science Matters program focuses on essential core concepts, helping bridge conceptual development from the elementary to secondary level. Science Matters helps to prepare today's students for the science careers of tomorrow. This program tells the story of measurement through the ages and illustrates the need for a standardized measurement system.

Originally released by BECON, 2001. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 17, 2016.

Units of Measure (3:19); --Developing a Standard of Measurement (3:24); -- Evolution of Measurement (4:35); -- Credits: History of Measurement: Measuring Up (0:53); .