Teach Engineering: Make Your Own Temperature Scale

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In this 50-minute activity for grades 3-5, students construct a simple thermometer using 2-liter bottles, straws, and an alcohol-water mixture. The main objective is to help young students understand the difference between temperature and thermal energy. A printable student worksheet, temperature conversion worksheet, assessment ideas, and vocabulary lists are included. This activity is part of a module titled "How Hot Is It?" See Related items on this page for a link to the full module.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - First Law = Heat Transfer - Thermal Properties of Matter = Temperature = Thermal Expansion	- Elementary School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Best practice = Lesson/Lesson Plan

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Restriction:: © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado
Keywords:: energy, experiential learning, heat energy, temperature, thermal energy, thermodynamics, thermometer
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 20, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: October 25, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 21, 2006
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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Is Part Of Teach Engineering: How Hot Is It?

A link to the full module that accompanies this activity.

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Accompanies Teach Engineering: How Much Heat Will It Hold?

This inquiry-based lab by the same authors explores the concept of heat capacity and how it is related to thermal energy storage. Appropriate for Grades 3-5.

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