Building a Pop Bottle Thermometer.

Name:________________________________________
We will build a thermometer today out of some unlikely materials.
Circle the materials you have to build your thermometer!

1- Plastic Bottle

1- straw

2- Popsicle sticks

1-chunk of plasticine

1- drop of dye in the bottle

1-marble

1-piece of gum

Procedures.
1. Carefully pour some cold water into your bottle. Pour enough to
fill it up to the black line. Mix up the water and the dye.
2. Your straw will need to stick out of the bottle, and it cannot touch
the bottom of the bottle.
3. Use the plasticine to hold the straw in place. It must be air-tight!

STOP! Flip the page and work on Qs A and B

4. Put your hands around the pop bottle VERY gently. Do not
squeeze the bottle!

A. We just built a plastic bottle thermometer! Fill in the blank with

the correct thermometer part.
Stem

Bulb

Alcohol

Scale

The bottom of the bottle is the _______________.

The straw is the _____________________________.
The dyed water is the ______________________________.
The only part missing is the __________________________.
Hint: The missing part has numbers and lines.

B. If the dyed water represents the alcohol of a thermometer, what

do you predict will happen when your warm hands are holding the
bottom of the bottle?
Circle One.
Will the water rise in the straw?

Or will it fall in the straw?

Go back to number 4 to find out!