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Taking Temperatures

Provided by: Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education |Published on: October 13, 2023
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  • This inquiry-based lesson serves as an introduction to thermometers, the connection between temperature and molecule movement, thermal energy, the greenhouse effect, and climate change.
  • Students will learn how to measure temperature with a thermometer, how the laws of energy make a thermometer work, what factors contribute to warmer temperatures, and how human carbon emissions are contributing to climate change.
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Subjects: Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
Region: North America, USA - Midwest, United States, Wisconsin
Languages: English

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