Thursday, September 23, 2010

What Happens to Water When it is Heated?


Students built a bottle thermometer and conducted an investigation to find out what happens when water is heated. We placed the thermometer in hot water. Tomorrow we will test out our thermometers in cold water and use vocabulary to explain our observations. I wonder what will happen!

Comment ideas: How did we build our thermometer? What is the average room temperature? What did the black line represent on the straw? Make a prediction of what you think will happen when we place the thermometer in cold water.

2 comments:

  1. I predict that the water level will go down.

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  2. Your prediction was correct! When water was cooled the water level in the thermometer went down because the water contracted.

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