Temperature
TEKS Objective
The student is expected to measure, test, and record physical properties of matter, including temperature, mass, magnetism, and the ability to sink or float.
Essential Understanding
The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those properties determine how matter is classified, changed, and used.
Science Background
About Temperature: Project Skymath (website) - Explanations about temperature, thermometers, thermal radiation, etc.
About Temperature
Project Skymath, www.eo.ucar.edu/skymath
How Do We Measure Temperature: Cool Cosmos, Caltech (website) - Background information on temperature measurement and measurement scales.
How Do We Measure Temperature
Cool Cosmos, Caltech, www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
Signature Lesson
Heat and Temperature - Is There a Difference? University of Alabama (website) - Students learn to differentiate between heat and temperature by measuring the temperature of water.
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Thermometers: Utah Education Network (website) - Students learn about temperature by observing, measuring and recording different temperatures.
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Measuring and Comparing Temperatures: Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project (website) - Students design an experiment to measure temperatures.
Hot and Cold Colors: Science NetLinks (website) - Students investigate how heating and cooling affect the dispersal of food coloring in water, and observe that heat can cause materials to change more rapidly.
Hot and Cold Colors
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com
Assessment Ideas
Display images of different places around the world to illustrate that temperature and climate vary by location. In their science notebooks, have students describe how temperature in these different places affects plants, animals and people.
Literature Connections
Physics: Why Matter Matters! Basher, S. (ISBN-13: 978-0753462140)
All About Temperature. Auch, Alison (ISBN-13: 978-1429666084)
The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet. West, Tracy (ISBN-13: 978-0590397247)
Investigating Matter. Walker, Sally (ISBN-13: 978-0761378754)
Additional Resources
Heat & Temperature: Cool Cosmos, Caltech (website) - Classroom activities related to the measurement and properties of temperature.
Heat & Temperature
Cool Cosmos, Caltech, www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
What’s the Weather: FOSS (website) - Cold, hot, warm, cool: what does the temperature mean to you? This interactive animation asks students to help the bear decide what to wear, based on the weather outside.
What's the Weather
FOSS, www.fossweb.com
Thermometer Quiz: Softschools.com (website) - Use this interactive game to test and increase students’ knowledge and skills for reading a thermometer.
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