Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

Five pages about reading temperature. On page 1 every Fahrenheit thermometer has a mark every 2 degrees and a number every 10: students find the top of the red column and write the temperature. Page 2 does the same in Celsius, with a mark for every degree and a number every 5. Page 3 turns it around: each thermometer is empty, and students color it up to the temperature printed under it. Page 4 asks which temperature makes sense for a snowman, a beach day, hot cocoa, and more, then matches four thermometers to the clothes you would wear. Page 5 compares a morning and an afternoon thermometer to find how much warmer or colder it got, then has three short word problems.

In the Classroom

Hang a real thermometer by a window and read it together each morning and after lunch, then talk about how much it changed. Before page 1, draw one large thermometer on the board and count the marks by 2s up from a number, so students see that the marks between numbers are not 1 degree each.

At Home

Look at the weather together and ask whether today is a 30-degree day or an 80-degree day. Read an outdoor or fridge thermometer if you have one, and on page 4 talk about why each picture fits its temperature.

Tips for Success

• Look at the top of the column, not the bulb
• Find the numbered mark just below the top, then count up the small marks
• On a Fahrenheit thermometer here each small mark is 2 degrees, so count 2, 4, 6, 8
• Always write the unit: °F or °C
• To find a change, count up from the lower temperature to the higher one