Female nurse: You normally take a temperature of someone when they have a fever, infection.
Male nurse: An average person's temperature would be about 37 degrees Centigrade.
Chef: It is important to reach the proper temperature of the oven and here we're cooking some pasties, to reach the 180 degrees Celsius.
If this is too hot, we might burn the pastry or if this is too low, we might not cook the pastry properly.
Another temperature is, this walk in fridge needs to be between one and five degrees Celsius, so the food, it doesn't go off.
IT male: You can hear the air conditioning in here because we have to keep the servers very cool.
Not only do they run better when they're cold but actually if they overheat, if they get beyond about 40 degrees, they stop working.
They actually shut themselves down because they will eventually blow up.
So if even one of these servers go down, potentially hundreds of customers can't work.
Temperature is a measure of how hot something is. Water freezes at 0°C (degrees Celsius) and boils at 100°C. Your blood is usually 37°C.
Quick tips for tutors
Temperature includes:
- Information about reading and comparing temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius
- Strategies for identifying, reading and comparing thermometers used for different purposes, with different scales
- Strategies and practice in reading scales to the nearest labelled and unlabelled division
- Strategies and practice in reading positive and negative temperatures
Downloadable Factsheets
Entry 1 & 2 - Weather temperatures
An introduction to weather temperatures.
Entry 3 - Reading thermometers
How to read different types of positive scales on a thermometer.
Entry 3 - Types of thermometer
Summary of the different kinds of thermometers and what they are used for.
Level 1 - Reading scales with marked divisions
How to estimate temperatures on scales that have marked divisions.
Level 1 - Reading scales with unmarked divisions
How to read temperatures on scales that have unmarked divisions.
Level 1 - Reading scales
How to read different types of scales on a thermometer and avoid reading errors.
Downloadable Worksheets
Entry 1 & 2 - Warmer or cooler?
An activity in finding out whether a temperature is warmer or cooler.
Entry 1 & 2 - Weather around the world
An activity in finding out about weather in different cities.
Entry 3 - Understanding temperature
Exercise in comprehension of temperature scales.
Entry 3 - Practising thermometer readings
Exercise in identifying positive thermometer readings.
Level 1 - Comparing thermometers with unmarked divisions
Exercise in comparing and reading temperature scales with unmarked divisions.
Level 1 - Using different scales
Exercise in reading thermometers that have the same units but different scales.
Level 1 - Comparing Fahrenheit and Celsius
Exercise in using a conversion table to help read and compare temperatures in Farenheit and Celsius.
Level 1 - Introduction to temperature
Exercise in reading positive and negative temperatures on different types of scales.
Level 1 - Reading thermometers with unmarked divisions
Exercise in practising readings on temperature scales with unmarked divisions.
Level 1 - Reading thermometers with marked divisions
Exercise in estimating readings on temperature scales with marked divisions.
