1st Grade · Week 1 of 36 · Science
Weather tools: thermometer
1. Hook
- Tap Read the lesson aloud (or a grown-up reads).
- Look at the pictures. Follow the numbered steps.
- Do the tap-and-try lab on this page. Do not skip it.
- Fill the short answers with a grown-up nearby.
- Do the quiz. Then teach it back in your own words.
You are at home on a computer or tablet. Everything you need is on this page.
Is it warmer in the sun or the shade? How could we prove it with a number?
Then: lab → guided → quiz → teach it back. The lab is the lesson, not a decoration.
2. Teach
Today we learn: Weather tools: thermometer.
Standards alignment: NGSS 1-ESS (domain-level; works with any state’s standards)
STEM this week is Weather tools: thermometer: look, write a fact, label a guess, then test one change.
- A thermometer measures how hot or cold something is.
- Temperature is measured in degrees. In the U.S. We often use degrees Fahrenheit (°F).
- The red or silver line goes up when it's warmer and down when it's colder.
Water freezes at 32°F. A nice spring day might be 70°F.
Put one thermometer in the sun and one in the shade for 10 minutes, then read both.
- Sun thermometer: line at 80.
- Shade thermometer: line at 70.
- Compare: 80 is more than 70.
- 80 − 70 = 10.
- The sun spot is 10 degrees warmer.
Read an outdoor thermometer at breakfast and after school for 3 days. Record both.
Reading the thermometer while holding the bulb (your hand warms it).
Weather reports tell the temperature so we know what to wear.
No classroom teacher today — this page is the lesson. A grown-up sits nearby. Model once, wait 10–20 seconds, then let the child try.
Try it — this is the game
Tap, move, listen. This is the experiment. Then we quiz what you just did.
Your work — type it here
Do the lab (tap Look, Fact, Guess, Test). Then type what you saw, in kid words.
3. Guided practice
Try these with me — type the missing word, then check.
Reveal the thinking
Wait, then read the top of the line.
4. Independent practice
Work the set. Check when finished — this is practice (mastery quiz is next).
5. Mastery check
Scored quiz — results save to your gradebook.
The lab is on this page
Do the experiment here. Change one thing. Read what happened. We do not send you to an outside simulation site. Today: Weather tools: thermometer.
A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher. A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher.
6. Reflection / teach-back
Teach-back: Explain Weather tools: thermometer in your own words. Give one example and name the usual mistake.