Our Temperature Lesson Plan comes with two Thermometer Activities and seven Thermometer Worksheets. We have book recommendations
This adjectives temperature worksheet has 1st grade students use picture clues to write hot, cold, dark, bright, wet, or dry in six sentences. An answer key is included to make checking easy.
This hot and cold activity lets children sort 12 picture cards onto a Hot and Cold mat to learn about temperature. For kindergarten to 2nd grade, answer key included.
In this dressin for the season seasons activity, PreK to 1st grade kids sort clothing picture cards by hot, cold and rainy weather. Answer key included.
Hot, cold and everything in between
First graders learn that temperature tells us how hot or cold something is. They compare things with words like hot, warm, cool and cold, and see that a thermometer goes up when it gets warmer and down when it gets cooler. They connect it to real life: shorts on a hot day, a coat on a cold one. The click moment comes when kids watch the red line climb in warm water and shout, "It went up!"
Feel it, see it, say it. These are the moves that make temperature real for little scientists.
Set out three cups of water: icy, room temperature and warm. Kids dip a finger and order them from coldest to hottest. Then put a thermometer in each and watch the line move.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withTemperature Lesson PlanLesson PlansOpen it →Check the temperature every morning and ask, "Is today warmer or colder than yesterday? How do you know?" Kids explain using the thermometer. A daily two-minute chat builds the idea.
Why it works: when kids say the precise math words, their understanding gets sharper, a recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withHot and Cold ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Show a picture of a hot day and a cold day and have kids choose the right clothes for each. Ask why. It connects temperature to choices they make every day.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withDressin For the Season Seasons ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Fun ways to warm up to temperature, in class or at home.
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They should know that temperature tells how hot or cold something is and that a thermometer measures it. They compare hot and cold and describe the weather.
Show them the line inside and tell them it climbs up when it gets warmer and drops when it gets cooler. Put it in warm and cold water so they can see it move.
Usually not yet. First graders focus on comparing hotter and colder and noticing if the line goes up or down. Reading exact degrees comes in later grades.
Check the outdoor temperature each morning and decide together what to wear. It takes one minute and makes the idea part of the day.
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