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This activity is a hands-on project that meets the Next Generation Science Standard for third grade: 3-ESS2-1 Earth's Systems (Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season).

This activity is a year-long project that allows students to compare temperatures throughout the different seasons. Students will complete a daily temperature calendar, a line graph plotting the daily temperature for each month, and a double bar graph comparing the minimum and maximum temperatures for each month. At the end of the project, students will reflect on their data by answering questions that will push them to compare, summarize, and infer.

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Daily Temperature Graphing Activity - Comparing Seasonal Temperatures

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This activity is a hands-on project that meets the Next Generation Science Standard for third grade: 3-ESS2-1 Earth's Systems (Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season). This activity is a year-long project that all...

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Students are able to determine temperature using task cards.

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DIGITAL PDF AND PRINTABLE: You will download 30 temperature task cards for your 2nd and 3rd grade students to practice reading a thermometer in Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You may use the printable task cards in math centers or stations for fun review games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT. They also work well for transition activities, as exit tickets and for morning work, quick formative assessments. Game ideas, a student response form and answer key are included.

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Reading a Thermometer Task Cards Temperature Fahrenheit & Celsius Digital

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DIGITAL PDF AND PRINTABLE: You will download 30 temperature task cards for your 2nd and 3rd grade students to practice reading a thermometer in Fahrenheit and Celsius.You may use the printable task cards in math centers or stations for fun review games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCO...

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In this activity students will sort pictures depending on the different sources of heat. For example, a student would sort a a picture of hands rubbing together under friction.

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In this activity, students sort 16 different sources of heat into 5 different categories: heat from sun, chemical reaction, electricity, friction, or heat from inside the earth.

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Heat Energy Video - Educational Physical Science Video for Elementary School Students & Kids

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Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

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This Science A-Z resource includes different activities and readings to help teach students about thermometers and how to use them.

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> Process Science > Grades 3-4 > Thermometers

© Konstantin Kirillov/123RF

Thermometers are tools used for measuring temperature. By using the resources below, students will learn about this important science tool and practice using it in meaningful ways.

Quick Reads

Process Activities

Activity Sheets

Supporting Materials

Discussion Cards

Science Diagrams

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Process Science > Grades 3-4 > Thermometers © Konstantin Kirillov/123RF Thermometers are tools used for measuring temperature. By using the resources below, students will learn about this important science tool and practice using it in meaningful ways.

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This heat unit plan includes three different sections that include information on heat, temperature, and heat transfer. This resource also includes reading passages, comprehension and other multiple choice questions, as well as answer keys.

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Heat Unit for Google SlidesThis Heat Unit is perfect to teach all about heat, temperature, and heat transfer. This unit uses reading comprehension to teach science! Practice key details and key science concepts in one!This unit is broken down into three sections:*What is Heat?- Passage and question…

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This is a graphic organizer where students will fill in the blank with the words that are included in the word bank. It helps students learn about the three different types of heat transfer as well as how energy can move.

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Heat Transfer Foldable - Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

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This foldable graphic organizer helps students learn about the 3 types of heat transfer. Print out double-sided and it is ready to be glued into an interactive science notebook.

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This website link shows how you can use everyday materials to create a solar oven to cook Smores.

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Summary

Introduction

Have you ever cooked something outside, like for a BBQ or while camping? It can be a lot of fun to be outdoors and enjoy eating the fruits - or burgers - of your cooking labors. Did you know that you can directly use solar power to cook food? This can be done using a solar oven, which is a low-cost, ecologically-friendly technology that seems to have everything going for it. In this science activity, you will build your very own simple solar oven out of a pizza box to gather the sun's rays and cook a tasty treat for you!

This activity is not recommended for use as a science fair project. Good science fair projects have a stronger focus on controlling variables, taking accurate measurements, and analyzing data. To find a science fair project that is just right for you, browse our library of over 1,200 Science Fair Project Ideas or use the Topic Selection Wizard to get a personalized project recommendation.

Materials

Pizza box. The larger the box, the better the oven should work.

Shipping tape or black electrical tape

A wooden skewer or pencil

To do some cooking with your solar oven, you will need sunlight and fairly warm outside temperatures (above 75 degrees Fahrenheit is recommended, and the hotter it is the better). It should also not be windy.

If you want to cook some s'mores in your solar oven, you will also need graham crackers, marshmallows, and a chocolate bar. You can use an aluminum pie pan or a small piece of aluminum foil as a tray. Optionally, you can try melting a small piece of butter to make sure your oven is working before cooking your s'mores.

Prep Work

1. If needed, clean out the pizza box so it is ready to become a solar oven. Remove any cardboard liner that the box came with.

2. Adult assistance is recommended for using the utility knife. Use caution when cooking with the solar oven as it can get quite hot!

Instructions

1. Line the inside of the cardboard flap with aluminum foil. Fold the edges of the foil over the flap to help hold the foil in place and glue the foil onto the flap. Keep the foil as smooth as possible.

What do you think the purpose of this foil is?

2. Line the inside of the box with aluminum foil so that when you shut the box, the entire interior is coated with foil. It is easiest to do this by covering the bottom of the box with foil, and then the covering the inside part of the lid (going around the plastic-covered opening) with foil too. Glue the foil in place. Why do you think you should coat the inside of the box with foil like this?

3. Glue or tape a sheet of black paper to the bottom of the box, centered there. This will act as your solar oven's heat sink.

How do you think it will help cook your food?

4. If you want to cook a s'more, break a graham cracker in half and place a marshmallow and small piece of chocolate between the cracker halves. Place the prepared s'more on a small square of aluminum foil (slightly larger than the s'more - this will serve as a tray) and put it in your solar oven, on top of the black sheet of paper. Put the solar oven outside where it will get full, direct sunlight for at least 30 minutes, and keep the oven turned so that the flap faces the sun. When the marshmallow is soft, your s'more should be ready to eat and enjoy!

How long does it take to cook the s'more in your solar oven? Does the oven get very warm?

What Happened?

In this activity, you built a simple box-type solar oven that should have been able to cook a s'more in sunny, warm conditions. In some trials using this type of solar oven, at about 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit on a sunny afternoon it took about 30 to 35 minutes for the marshmallow to get warm enough to become soft and melt some of the chocolate, and make a tasty, solar-powered treat! In ideal conditions, this solar oven can easily heat up to about 160 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Using full, direct sunlight is important for heating this solar oven.

Digging Deeper

Solar ovens use solar energy - light and heat emitted from the sun - to cook food, pasteurize water, or even sterilize instruments. How does a solar oven work? The simple answer is that it is designed to absorb more heat than it releases.

The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and a sheet of black paper. You cut a flap out of the pizza box's lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. You also seal the opening with plastic wrap to create a plastic "window" that works like a greenhouse roof, allowing (direct and reflected) sunlight to pass into the box, while also retaining heat. At the bottom of the box, you placed black paper to create a "heat sink." This heat sink works by absorbing direct and reflected sunlight to become warm so that it can then heat up food placed on top of it.

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For Further Exploration

There are a lot of variables that you can try to tweak in your solar oven design to make it even better. Can you make your solar oven be more efficient by changing the angle of the reflector flap, using different materials to insulate the oven, or changing the shape or size of your oven?

One way to quantify how efficient your solar oven is is to use a thermometer to measure the temperature inside of your solar oven over time. How hot can your solar oven get? How does this compare to a real oven?

The weather outside can significantly affect how well a solar oven performs. How well does your solar oven cook on a warm day versus a very hot day? What about a sunny day versus an overcast day?

In this activity you made a very simple box-type solar oven, but you could build another solar oven using a more efficient design to make your solar oven get even hotter! Do some research online to find other solar oven designs. How efficient can you make a solar oven be?

Project Ideas

Science Fair Project Idea

Here is a project that uses direct solar power, gathering the sun's rays for heating/sterilizing water or cooking. It is a low-cost technology that seems to have everything going for it. Does it work? Can you find ways to improve it? Find out with this project. Read more

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Build a simple box-type solar oven and use it to cook s'mores.