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[Dino and Coop singing]

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All right, metric converters, buckle up, because we're about to serenade you with a tale that'll [Girl sat in a chair with a seatbelt]

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help you become a metric converting maestro! [Another girl sat in a chair playing a guitar]

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This is King Henry.

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One day, he was riding his horse around his land when he got super hot and thirsty. [King Henry on a horse]

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He decided to stop and take some icy-cold gulps of his favorite beverage: chocolate milk. [King Henry arrives at the chocolate milk stand]

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Suddenly, a giant acorn fell from the tree King Henry was resting under. [The giant acorn hits King Henry on the head]

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It hit him so hard that he died!

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Whoa.

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Okay….wasn't expecting that….

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Then a giant squirrel took the giant acorn away, removing all evidence of the cause of

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King Henry’s demise. [Giant squirrel walking away with the acorn]

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Thusly, when the King’s knights found him, there was no clear explanation for what had [Knight arriving]

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happened.

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The mysterious death baffled all the kingdom.

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The next day, the paper’s headline read:

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“King Henry Died Unexpectedly Drinking Chocolate Milk.” [Newspaper]

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And thus, we were given the key for converting any metric measurement!

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….Wait. What?

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What just happened…?

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Uh…

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Let's back up and try to explain that crazy story. [Man cheers and video game style acheivment appears]

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Remember, the metric system is a scale of measurement that is based on a scale of tens.

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With that scale, we can easily convert between any measurements. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

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And as it turns out, that headline about ol’ King Henry’s untimely demise can help us, too.

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Check it out.

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Look closely, because the first letter of each word in that sentence represents a prefix [Each first letter of the words in the newspaper headline is highlighted]

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of the metric system.

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When we want to convert measurements with that sentence, all we do is count how far

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away the two units are from each other in that sentence, and move the decimal point [Fingers counting along]

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that many spaces.

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Let’s say the late King’s Official Master of Chocolate Milk was taking inventory for [The 'Master of Chocolate Milk' holding a scroll]

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the sake of the King’s will, and had a three-liter barrel of chocolate milk, which he wanted

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to record as milliliters.

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Let’s look at our sentence, again…

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We start at the “U”, because “liter” is one of our base units…as would be meter,

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or grams…

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We move to the “M” in “Milk” for milliliters and find that we’ve moved over three spaces [An arrow shows the 3 spaces in the acronym]

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– or three decimal points, giving us 3,000!

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So, the King’s Master of Chocolate Milk has discovered that the King’s family will

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be inheriting 3,000 milliliters of chocolate milk!

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“King Henry Died Unexpectedly While Drinking Chocolate Milk” turns out to be a pretty [King Richard and Henry's gravestones]

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math-free way of doing some math.

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Of course, it’s more emotionally trying if you happened to have been close to King [Knight arrives at the grave]

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Henry… so sad… so unexpected...

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