Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

Reading Thermometers What is the Temperature?

Date

December 1, 2014

Subject/Grade
Level

Science, Grade 2

Time
Duration

12:50 1:53 (63 min.)

(Allowing time for pack up
and bringing students in)

Unit

Hot and Cold Temperature

Teacher

Breanna Moore

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

29. Recognize the effects of heating and cooling, and identify methods for heating and cooling.
1. Describe temperature in relative terms, using expressions, such as hotter than, colder than.
2. Measure temperature in degrees Celsius (C).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Determine the temperature shown on thermometers
2. Identify 0 on a thermometer
3. Identify hot and cold items

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:

Products/Performances:

I will be walking around the room and watching students work

I will be looking at student workbooks and assessing them
Where is zero on a thermometer?
How do you know when a thermometer says it is cold? How do you know when a
thermometer says it is cold?
Students will complete a booklet about thermometers and temperature.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Program of Studies Science

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Smart board, work books, pencil crayons, pencils

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity #1

I will ensure that the Smart board lesson is loaded and that work books are in a neat pile so
that students can retrieve them.
Introduction
Time
I will have the first page of my Smart board lesson open and ask one
1 min.
student to put items in their appropriate category (hottest, hot, and cold.)
I will be assessing student knowledge with my attention grabber, as well as
asking so what is temperature? How do we know when something is hot
1 min,
or cold? Can anyone think of what we use to measure temperature? It starts
with a th
1. Students will raise their hands if they have a question
2. Students will give me 5 and give me their attention when we
switch activities
1. Introduction to Thermometers
2. Estimating Temperatures
3. Measuring Temperatures
So we can tell the exact temperature of something with thermometers! We
0.5 min.
are going to learn how to read them so you can measure temperature.
Body
Time
Introduction to Thermometers
- I will put my slide on the second page, with the interactive
thermometer
- I will ask students what do we notice about where zero is on a
12 min.
thermometer?
- I will ask students so why is it in the middle? What is below it?
- I will tell students so when the red on a thermometer is low, that
means its cold!

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

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Teacher Notes: Assessments/

Differentiation

Learning Activity #2

Teacher Notes: Assessments/

Differentiation

Learning Activity #3
Teacher Notes: Assessments/
Differentiation

Consolidation of
Learning:
Feedback From Students:
Feedback To Students
Transition To Next
Lesson

I will tell students so when the red on a thermometer is high, that

means its hot!
I will move the red on the Smart board thermometer upward and
ask students so is this hot or cold?
I will ask students so could this be hot chocolate or an ice cream
cone?

Directions
- I will ask two students to flip to the first page of their booklets and
say so I want you to colour the thermometer, guess if the red line
will be high or low? With an ice cube, would it be low because its
cold?
- I will tell students they have a few minutes for this activity
Assessment will be done as I am listening to student answers and checking
for understanding of my directions. I will also be assessing student
behavior.
Workbooks Page 1
- Students will complete the first page of their booklets
Instruction
- I will say Give me 5! Okay since most of you are done,we are going
to measure exact temperatures.
- With my interactive thermometer up, I will move the red to 50 and
ask so what is the temperature?
- I will move the red to -20 and ask so what is the temperature? Its
below zero but it still says 20, so it is minus 20
- I will tell students I want you to do the rest of the booklet, you will
tell me what temperature the thermometer says and if it is hot,
cold, or warm
- I will say on the last page, I want you to colour in the thermometer
to any level you want and then tell me the temperature
I will be assessing by walking around the room and assisting students who
need it. I will also be assessing student behavior by making sure students
who know what to do can help each other.
Completing Workbooks
- Students will work on their thermometer booklets until the end of
the period
I will be assessing by walking around the room and looking at student
progress, and also by collecting their booklets at the end of the lesson.
Closure
I will say so now that we can read thermometers, we will know exactly
how hot or cold things are!
I will ask students for a thumbs up if they think they are ready to work
with real thermometers, and a thumbs down if they need help.
Feedback will be written on students booklets.
I will ask students to give me their booklets and line up at the door to go
back to their classrooms and go to recess. Students will be called by rows,
depending on which rows are quiet.

15 min.

33 min.

Time
0.5 min.
0.5 min.
N/A
1 min.

Sponge
Activity/Activities

Students who are done can draw pictures of something hot or cold (depending on the
temperature the thermometer shows) next to the thermometers in their work books.

Reflections from the

lesson

To be filled out after lesson.

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe