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Teaching students about temperatures is a useful skill that they will use throughout their lives. Take a look at Tabstart's Activities on Temperature Third Grade page to find a variety of activities to teach science students about temperatures. Be sure take a look at the "Make a Thermometer Project" for an activity students will be sure to enjoy.
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Today's Temperature Activity for Third Graders - Scholastic.com provides a classic and important temperature measuring activity here. Students are given a record sheet with blank thermometers on it and are asked to measure the daily temperature for a period of time.
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Temperature on a Celsius Thermometer Activity - In this lesson students learn about reading a Celsius thermometer and reading bar graphs. This lesson plan is helpful for teaching students who are only familiar with Fahrenheit temperatures.
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Make a Thermometer Project - This activity found on California's Energy Commission website provides a really interesting activity where students are given the opportunity to make a thermometer! The activity concludes with a lesson on changing temperature scales.
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Third Grade Temperature & Pressure Lab Activity - This page begins with some facts about pressure and temperature. After that you can find an experiment activity that determines what happens to an air-filled ballon in ice water and in warm water.
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How to Read a Thermometer Lesson Plan - (MS Word) This lesson plan is quite useful for students who are learning about using thermometers for the first time.
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Ideas to Teach Temperature to 3rd Grade Students - This page from A to Z Teacher Stuff contains a conversation among teachers about different ideas for teaching temperature to science students. There are lots of great ideas in this posted forum thread.
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Temperature & Line Graph Worksheet Activity - Students can practice their graphic skills with this worksheet found at TLSBooks.com. The objective of this activity is for students to create a line graph representing temperatures from different days.
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Taking Temperature on a Thermometer Worksheet - Tlsbooks.com provides this worksheet that helps students practice reading a thermometer. Students read word problems about different temperatures and are asked to fill in the thermometers and compare different temperatures in different locations.
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Movement of Liquid Molecules Activity - The CanTeach website presents a classic experiment activity about the movement of liquid molecules. This lesson demonstrates how food coloring is affected by the temperature of water.