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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: An Electric Thermometer

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Be a Scientist

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students practice estimating Celsius temperatures using a thermometer in this interactive web lesson. Boiling, freezing, and human body temperatures are used as benchmarks for estimating.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Hot Stuff

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students practice estimating Fahrenheit temperatures using a thermometer in this interactive web lesson. Boiling, freezing, and human body temperatures are used as benchmarks for estimating.
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NC State University

The Engineering Place: Making a Thermometer

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A demonstration in how a thermometer works, followed by young scholars using real thermometers as they apply the scientific method.
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Other

Exemplars: Thermometer Rubric

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: Temperature and Thermometers

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive tutorial to introduce students to the concepts of temperature and thermometers.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Sun or Shade?

For Teachers 3rd
Use a thermometer to measure the air temperature in several places around the school.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cricket Thermometers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate the relationship between temperature and number of cricket chirps. They learn to find the other value of a function when given one value of a function. Students use linear regression and plot a set...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: A Fossil Thermometer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students calculate temperatures during a time in the geologic record when rapid warming occurred using a well known method called 'leaf-margin analysis.' Students determine the percentage of the species that have leaves...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Changing the State of Matter Using Heating and Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will investigate how different materials changed when heated or cooled. The process in developing the investigation will be inquiry based. Students will have the liberty in choosing the materials and devising how...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: South Africa: What Is the Weather Like Today?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Join Tim and Johnny on their voyage to South Africa, but before they get there they need to make sure they understand the weather conditions. This interactive module helps you describe the weather, learn about basic forecasting and how...
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Interactive
Toy Theater

Toy Theater: Thermometer

For Students 3rd - 5th
Discover how temperature is measured with this interactive thermometer. Use it to learn how hot and cold are measured and how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa.
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Handout
Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Weather Page: Temperature

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out about temperature and how to read a thermometer.
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CNN

Cnn: Space Age Inventions You Probably Use (2007)

For Students 9th - 10th
Some common items that help save lives every day or make lives a little easier are compliments of NASA technologies. This article features ten of these developments
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Tempting Temperatures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students learn how to use a thermometer and compare changes in temperature using water in the fridge and water in the freezer. Helps students create charts to analyze data.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Make Your Own Temperature Scale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the difference between temperature and thermal energy. They build a thermometer using simple materials and develop their own scale for measuring temperature. They compare their thermometer to a commercial...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Cold Can You Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore materials engineering by modifying the material properties of water. Specifically, they use salt to lower the freezing point of water and test it by making ice cream. Using either a simple thermometer or a mechatronic...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rooftop Gardens

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore whether rooftop gardens are a viable option for combating the urban heat island effect. Can rooftop gardens reduce the temperature inside and outside houses? Teams each design and construct two model buildings using foam...
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Other

Massachusetts Department of Education: Sunlight Warms Earth's Surface

For Teachers K - 1st
This unit contains a series of lessons that allow learners to explore the effect of sunlight on Earth's natural surfaces of sand, soil, rock, and water. In addition, students explore how the color and material of a surface affects how...
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Other

Ns Dept. Of Education: Blackline Masters, Math Essentials 11

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Mathematics templates here support a Grade 11 Math text used in Nova Scotia. There is an assortment of blackline masters ranging from Celsius thermometers and Canadian coins to fraction circles and number lines. Many of the templates...
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Curated OER

Thermometer Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this online activity to explore how various substances respond to changes in temperature. Learn how to calibrate a thermometer.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Clinical Thermometer

For Students 9th - 10th
A photo looking down over a typical looking clinical thermometer used in a variety of medical, scientific and experimental situations.
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Handout
City University of New York

Brooklyn College:heat and Temperature Interactive Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this online activity to explore how various substances respond to changes in temperature. Learn how to calibrate a thermometer.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring and Comparing Temperatures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using thermometers, students will compare differences in the temperature of various materials and locations. They will record and chart the data that was collected and present the graphs to their classmates.

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