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Fahrenheit vs Celsius
Students make a thermometer and write a paragraph about how they did it.
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Living Thermometer
Students count the number of times a cricket chirps in a sixty-second span and subtract 40, divide by 4 and add 50. They compare the answer to the degrees in Fahrenheit.
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Temperature Effects
Students witness effects of temperature on plants. They also change temperature from a Celsius or Fahrenheit thermometer.
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Accurately Measure Body Temperature
Pupils in an occupational health careers classroom review and practice finding temperature using a thermometer. They practice converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and from Fahrenheit to Celsius. They take each other's temperature and convert...
CK-12 Foundation
Algebra Expressions with Fraction Bars: Temperature Conversion
Use a cool resource for a hot topic. Pupils learn how to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, and vice versa. An interactive helps show how to perform the conversions.
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Learning About Temperature Is Cool!
Students estimate and compare temperature using degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit, and create mini temperature posters and answer questions about temperature.
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Understanding Celsius
Student read both Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures on thermometers. They covert the temperatures and write poems to show understanding.
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Producing Heat
Students listen to "Heat Wave" by Helen Ketterman and discuss the story by creating a word web with heat as the main topic. They break into groups and conduct an experiment using a thermometer to record the temperature of melting ice...
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Temperature
Students explore hot, warm, and cold. In this temperature lesson plan, students use thermometers to find specific temperatures. Students also consider how colored items absorb heat as they participate in a demonstration.
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What is Temperature?
In this temperature worksheet, students compare and contrast the 2 scales used to measure temperature: Fahrenheit scale and Celsius scale. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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What Temperature Is It?
Students answer the question, What is temperature? In this temperature lesson, students use hot chocolate and ice cubes to measure temperature with a thermometer (Fahrenheit and Celsius). This lesson includes a student activity sheet,...
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What is the Temperature? (B)
For this reading a thermometer worksheet, students tell the temperature of each thermometer in Fahrenheit and Celsius. Students solve 8 temperature measurements.
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Cool It
Students simulate lizard temperature regulation. In this Science lesson, students use a thermometer as a pretend lizard. Students must keep their lizard within a particular temperature range while moving through a specified course.
Messenger Education
Design Challenge: How to Keep Gelatin from Melting
The inside of the spacecraft Messenger, which explores Mercury, will experience temperatures from 32 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit. In the final installment of a series of four space-related activities, groups spend time discussing and...
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What is Temperature and How Is It Measured?
Learners complete activities to measure temperature. In this temperature lesson, students read Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather and make a KWL chart about predicting weather. Learners discuss folklore about temperature and learn...
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Celsius Tells Temperature, Too
Second graders become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them.
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Temperature
In this temperature worksheet, 2nd graders write down 3 temperatures on the lines provided, circle the thermometer with the warmest temperature and draw an X through the thermometer with the coldest temperature.
Montana State University
What's the Weather?
How many jackets do you need to stay warm and climb Mount Everest? An informatie resource covers the topic of Mount Everest, the resource helps young scientists discover the difference between climate and weather. Activities include...
Desert Discoveries
Lizard Dash!
Here is a terrific learning game that has pupils acting like lizards! Before the game starts, there is a class discussion on the differences between endotherms and exotherms. The main focus of the game is how each team must keep their...
Curated OER
Wet-Dry Bulb Hygrometers: Measuring Relative Humidity and Apparent Temperature
Students work in groups of 4 for the activity/activity part of this exercise. They know that clouds are formed by the condensation of water vapor, affect weather and climate. Also that global patterns of atmospheric movement influence...
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A Real Difference
Fifth graders use the Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers to compare temperature readings. They use the Internet to find the temperatures of selected cities. After data is collected for five days, 5th graders graph the temperatures.
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Aspects of Weather
Students recognize and observe weather phenomena. In this four part weather lesson plan, students are introduced to weather symbols through a story, then use a thermometer to measure water temperature. Next, students observe the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 7 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 2)
Reinforce math vocabulary instruction with a set of flash cards. Fifty-six cards offer either a bold-face word or a picture representation equipped with descriptive labels. Terms include centimeters, gallons, square units, and more!
Chicago Botanic Garden
Weather or Not
What is the difference between weather and climate? This is the focus question of a lesson that takes a deeper look at how weather data helps determine climate in a region. Using weather and climate cards, students decide if a statement...