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Illustrative Mathematics

Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the relationship between the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales. Given two data points, they construct a linear function to describe the relationship, find the inverse of the function, and make observations...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Writing Constraints

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Use this resource to present your number crunchers with how to write a constraint equation and to determine viable solutions. The price of an object limits the amount that can be purchased. The speed at which you walk limits the number...
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Colorado State University

How Do Long and Short EM Waves Interact with the Earth's Atmosphere?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Things are about to heat up in your classroom! A kinesthetic lesson asks learners to play the part of the gases in the earth's atmosphere and interact with the sun's radiation. The focus is to learn the impact of the increasing...
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Curated OER

Taking the Temperature

For Teachers 3rd
Students read a thermometer in Celsius and Fahrenheit. In this thermometer reading lesson, students take the temperature in different situations and discuss the results with a partner.
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Curated OER

Temperature Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young weather buffs use compositions and inverses of functions to convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin degrees. Then they analyze possible compositions and whether they exist in the real-life context.
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NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service Forecast Office: Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Enter either Fahrenheit or Celsius temperature for conversion.
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NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service Forecast Office: Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Enter either Fahrenheit or Celsius temperature for conversion.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Conversion of Temperature: Celsius to Fahrenheit

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the two main temperature scales, Celsius and Fahrenheit, and how to convert temperature from one to another. View two conversion examples and a chart of typical temperatures, and use the conversion tool.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: A Tale of Two Temperatures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will collect data for a range of temperatures in units of Fahrenheit and Celsius, and develop a conversion formula for changing from one unit to the other.
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New York University

New York University: Measurement of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about the distinction between heat and temperature, and allows you to check your understanding through exercises. The Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius temperatures are compared and discussed.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Do You Have a Temperature?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students represent and analyze climate data. They use linear regressions to understand the relationship between temperatures measured in the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales and examine conversion factors.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Weather: Temperature Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn how to convert measures of temperature between the three different scales - Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin. The history and uses of each are very briefly explained as well.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Unit Conversions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to convert temperature readings on the Fahrenheit scale to temperature readings on the Celsius scale.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot or Not

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains what a fever is and how the immune system uses it to try and protect the body against germs. The students then explore temperature further by creating a model of a thermometer and completing a temperature...
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Other

Science Made Simple: Temperature Conversions

For Students 9th - 10th
Science Made Simple allows you to type in temperatures you want converted from one measurement scale to another.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Two Hot, Two Cold

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect both Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature data for several water samples of varying temperatures. They use the data to find a conversion equation that will calculate the Fahrenheit temperature for any...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inverse of Two Temps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and...

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