Thermometer Teacher Resources

Students examine what colors are in white and other colors of light.  In this light prism lesson students complete a lab activity that helps them understand complimentary colors. 

In this math assessment worksheet, pupils answer 5 multiple choice geometry questions. The assessment is on the fourth grade level.

Students discuss the relationship of density to stratification. In this marine science lesson, students create a model of upwelling events using cold and warm water. They discuss how water phenomena affect coral reefs.

Students explore earth science by researching the Internet. In this weather pattern lesson plan, students utilize the website weather.com to analyze the weather in different geographic locations. Students view charts and graphs based on...

Students research about ways to keep food from spoiling. In this health science instructional activity, students design an experiment to keep the ice cubes from melting. They present their designs and results in class.

In this ESL instructional activity, students complete exercises on five pages. All the English questions pertain to weather and tourism in the students' home countries.

This particle PowerPoint includes many pictures to illustrate solids, liquids and gasses and the behavior of their particles.

Students will learn about energy. This physics lesson plan, outlines the energy unit to be taught that covers energy, conversions, and heat.

Instructions for how to make an electrical thermometer. The electrical thermometer works like this - the design consists of four resistors each made from about 40 meters of very thin copper wire. The electrical resistance of wire changes...

Based on experimental observations, learners describe, on the molecular level, why the liquid in a thermometer goes up when it is heated and down when it is cooled.

Learn about the different types of thermometers, their applications, and how they work.

Read about the history of the thermometer and the different types of thermometers and temperature scales that were invented.

Do you know how a thermometer measures temperature? This page takes you through two approaches to making a thermometer and how those approaches measure temperature.

Learn how an infrared thermometer works and what each of its parts does. A chart lists the different applications of infrared thermometers by the wavelength each emits.

This rubric is appropriate to use with older students. It features a way for students to self-assess by drawing a line on the thermometer. Teachers could also assess using the same thermometer rubric.

A large collection of worksheets, of increasing difficulty levels, for reading a thermometer in both Centigrade and Fahrenheit degrees.