Reading Thermometers Worksheet

- Year groups
- Years 3–5 (Key Stage 2)
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Measurements, Maths
- Topic
- Have Fun Teaching, Reading a Themometer
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Use this maths worksheet to practise showing given temperatures on three thermometers with Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. Students then choose a temperature for each of three pictured scenes.
The one-page PDF does not include conversion calculations or multi-step word problems. Model how to follow the named temperature scale before students draw the liquid level.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Represent a stated temperature on a thermometer
Use scale intervals to position a liquid level
Distinguish how target values appear in two temperature units
Teaching tips
Mark the target tick first, then shade the level upward from the bulb.
Check that every drawn level starts at the base and stops at one consistent height.
Skills covered
Scale construction
Temperature representation
Interval counting
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Drawing thermometer levels
Temperature scales
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