Instructional module focusing on temperature. Discussion includes historical references to the different scales by which temperature is measured. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.

This site examines the specific difference between mass and weight in addition to length, temperature, and time.

This resource provides historic information on length measurement in the United Kingdom. Click on the topics on the left toolbar of the article to find out more information.

A very simple electrical resistance thermometer is described that can be built, calibrated and tested in a school laboratory at virtually no cost. With it, flames, focused sunlight and other high temperature sources can be probed. The...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students will learn the significance of using moles in converting between measurements and in understanding how much of something you have.

Pump gas molecules to a box and see what happens as the volume changes, add or remove heat, change gravity, and more. Measure the temperature and pressure, and discover how the properties of the gas vary in relation to each other....

We see numbers everywhere around us - measuring the temperature, counting money, telling the time, etc. The numbers that are used for counting objects are called "natural numbers". This article explains the properties of natural numbers...

Profile of Doctors Olof Celsius and Anders Celsius. Olof created a herbarium collection of 765 pressed specimens of Swedish plants, while his nephew, Anders, developed the modern system of temperature measurement.

This site provides geothermal maps of Colorado with the intent being to identify possible sources of geothermal energy. It explains how the temperature measurements were taken and the reasons the results must be considered to be...

Scroll partway down the page to find this lesson on decimals which incorporates the use of thermometers at an activity centre.

The heat of fusion is defined and described. A graphical representation of the heat of vaporization is given. A method for measuring and calculating the heat of fusion is also presented and explained.

Read about the use of data loggers in one high school class. The data loggers were the key to quantifying the relationship between temperature, light, and biodiversity. Although this is relevant to high school science links are provided...

This micro-field guide was created by 5th and 6th graders in Marlboro, Vermont. Groups of 3 or 4 students worked together to investigate their own 3 by 3 foot research plot, over multiple visits, and then created a field guide to their...

Scientists have warned that as CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise an increase in Earth's temperature by even two degrees could lead to catastrophic effects across the world. But how can such a tiny, measurable change in one factor lead to...