Kindergarten · Science · week 3

Temperature: hot and cold days

Describe a day as hot, warm, cool, or cold, and connect the temperature to how the body feels.

Temperature tells you how hot or cold the air is. You feel temperature on your skin. A hot day makes you sweat. A cold day makes you want a coat. Some tools called thermometers measure temperature with numbers, but today you will measure it with your own skin.

Temperature is not the same as sunny or cloudy. A cloudy day can still be warm, and a sunny winter day can still be cold. You have to actually feel the air to know.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Step outside together and both say how the air feels before checking anything else.
  • If you have an outdoor thermometer, look at the number together after guessing with your skin first.
  • Talk through clothing choices out loud: "It feels cold, so we need a coat today."
  • Notice out loud when a cloudy day still feels warm, to break the cloudy-means-cold idea.
Talk about it:
  • How does your body feel on a hot day? On a cold day?
  • What is one thing you only wear when it is cold?
  • Can a rainy day still feel warm?

Mastery looks like: They correctly describe a day as hot, warm, cool, or cold based on how the air actually feels, and name matching clothing.

Common stumbles: Judging temperature only by whether it is sunny or cloudy instead of actually feeling the air.

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