Measurement - Thermometer Scoring Guide


Process - Measurement - thermometer

 

Level

Evaluation Criteria

1

States that a thermometer is used to measure temperature.

2

Knows the approximate relative temperatures of freezing, room temperature, summer day, and boiling.

3

Accurately and safely uses thermometers with different scales to decide an appropriate range or error and measure temperatures from below freezing to boiling.

4

Knows how to safely and accurately take appropriate temperature readings and understands that temperature scales are dependent on arbitrary relative references (boiling or freezing) and the degradations one chooses to use between them.

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