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The Temperature-Sensing Lunchbox
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Teach electricity and circuitry while students build a working model of thermal energy transfer.
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Fall Colors, Temperature, and Day Length
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Along with the bright hues of orange, red, and yellow, the season of fall represents significant changes, such as day length and temperature. These changes provide excellent opportunities for students to use science…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Understanding Heat and Temperature
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Since this issue of The Science Teacher has a polar theme, the author thought this would be a particularly appropriate time to examine research about students’ preconceived ideas about heat—or the lack thereof. Heat and…
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Teaching Temperature With Project-Based Learning
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In this project-based unit on weather, a fictional director of a Hungarian Wildlife Refuge invites fourth-grade students to determine whether the backyard of their school contained a variety of surface temperature…
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Tech Trek: How reliable is the temperature forecast?
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The internet has become as commonplace as a daily newspaper, and is a primary source of news for middle school students. Access to up-to-the minute weather forecasts is something most students take for granted. However…
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Teaching About Heat and Temperature Using an Investigative Demonstration
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This short and cost-effective lesson helps middle grade students learn about the transfer of thermal energy. The lesson comprises three activities: a predict-share-observe-explain sequence of instruction that elicits…
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Science 101: Is it healthy for your body temperature to change all the time?
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The author explains why the body temperature for a human who is healthy can range from 97 degrees Farenheit to 100 degrees Farenheit.
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Idea Bank: Warming to Global Warming—Sunspots and Sea-Surface Temperature
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In the problem-based laboratory activity described here, students evaluate the causality of changes on the solar surface in regard to climate change and warming in Earth’s environment. They use graphing calculators and…
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