No need to worry about using mercury-laden thermometers in a classroom full of rambunctious young children. Our traditional thermometers do not use mercury at all, and they are durable enough to withstand normal wear and tear.
That said, you must be very careful when conducting experiments using temperature measurement tools. You do not want to put your students in a position where they’ll likely experience accidents due to exposure to extremely high or low temperatures.
Activity Ideas:
- Temperature tracking. This is the perfect experiment for our Digital Dual Temperature Thermometer, which records both internal and external temperatures. Have your students record the temperature inside and out for a week or so, and discuss the findings afterwards.
- Celsius to Fahrenheit (and vice versa). Have you already begun to teach your students the differences between the various units of temperature? Use the temperature tools to supplement lessons about Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin.
- Various thermodynamics experiments. If you want your students to understand the finer points of temperature, you can ease them into school-friendly heat experiments. Again, make sure you watch students closely when conducting these sorts of experiments.