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National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
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Invent a unit
This video and worksheet from the National Physical Laboratory, asks students to invent their own unit. The video defines what units and prefixes are, and how they are defined, and invites students to invent their own units to submit via a link on the worksheet to the NPL website. Some of the ideas already submitted are given in the report document.
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