1. Ms. Dayna Martínez STARS-USF Maniscalco Elementary
Warmer or cooler?
Ms. Dayna Martínez
STARS-USF
Maniscalco Elementary

2. What’s a thermometer?
A thermometer is an instrument that measures temperature
Thermo – heat
Meter – measure
The thermometer measures temperatures in Fahrenheit (F), Celsius (C) and another scale called Kelvin (K). Fahrenheit is used mostly in the United States, and most of the rest of the world uses Celsius. Kelvin is used by scientists.

3. How does a thermometer works?
A thermometer has a thin red or silver line that grows longer when it is hotter and goes down in cold weather.
This liquid is sometimes colored alcohol but can also be a metallic liquid called mercury.
Both mercury and alcohol grow bigger when heated (volume of the liquid increases) and smaller when cooled (volume of the liquid decreases).
Inside the glass tube of a thermometer, the liquid has no place to go but up when the temperature is hot and down when the temperature is cold.
Numbers are placed alongside the glass tube that mark the temperature when the line is at that point.

4. Parts of a thermometer
Scale
Tube of
glass
Glass
bulb
Liquid

5. How to read a thermometer?
Place the thermometer in the substance
Wait a little for the thermometer to display the temperature
Your eyes should be level with the top of the liquid in the tube to read it accurately

6. Now, you tell me!

7. + Endothermic Reaction Reaction that absorbs heat
Temperature decreases +
When cream of tartar is mixed with water, temperature drops.
Substance 1 + Substance 2 + Energy New substance
Temperature

8. Exothermic Reaction Reaction that releases heat Temperature increases
All combustion reactions are exothermic.
Substance 1 + Substance Energy + New substance
Temperature

9. Heat transfer
Heat is the transfer of thermal energy between objects with different temperatures.
Thermal energy travels from a warmer object to a cooler object.
When you mix hot water with cold water, the heat will transfer from the hot water to the cold water until they reach thermal equilibrium.

10. Ways heat can move through a system
Conduction
The transfer of heat from one object directly to another.

11. Ways heat can move through a system
Convection
The transfer of heat through the movement of a gas or a liquid.

12. Ways heat can move through a system
Radiation
The transfer of energy by means of waves that move through matter and space.

13. Insulators and conductors
An insulator is a material that is a poor conductor of heat energy.
A conductor is a material that allows the conduction of heat energy.

14. Questions?