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Cool times with heat
A multi-session unit providing practical opportunities for measuring temperature using thermometers.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4 Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6, P8)
- Publisher
- New Zealand Ministry of Education
- Copyright
- © New Zealand Ministry of Education. Creative Commons BY 3.0 NZ.
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