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Grade 1 Science · World 3: Weather Station · Level 15
Thermometers
Compare hotter and colder, and read a thermometer by tens.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 15
- A thermometer measures temperature: how hot or cold the air is. The red line goes up when it's warmer, and down when it's colder.
- To read it, find the top of the red line, then read the number next to it. Count by tens: 10, 20, 30…
- This one shows 60 degrees. That's nice weather for a light jacket!
- Ninety degrees is hot: shorts weather! Twenty degrees is cold: coats and mittens!
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S1E1.c — Plan and carry out investigations on current weather conditions by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal, on a calendar, and graphically.