Question: If a student was holding a thermometer by the bulb (the round part at the bottom of the thermometer) when reading the temperature, would the temperature read the same? Why or why not?
Reference answer: No. The temperature would be higher because the student's finger would make the temperature warmer. [Heat would transfer from the student's finger to the thermometer bulb.]

Student answer: No, It is 2 different things.

Student answer: No, Because it would be little warm. It would be hotter if he would not be grabbing the bulb.

Student answer: No, because he is changing the temperature by putting his hand at the round part.

Student answer: No, Because he will take some of the heat of the ball and if he does the temperature could go down 3 degrees.

Student answer: No. Why, because the student who handled it might have been a different temperature which changes the temperature.

Student answer: No, it would not read the same temperature because the heat on your hand heats the thermometer.

Student answer: No, because the molecules might be moving too fast and then you fell sink.

Student answer: No, No because the bulb will be hot and the degrees will go up. If it is on 20 Celsius it will go up to 30 Celsius.

Student answer: No, No because it will rise like 4 or 5 degrees.

Student answer: No, No because he keeps on touching the thermometer and will never be the same.

Student answer: No, The temperature will change when you hold the thermometer by the bulb because your hand and body is warm so the temperature will go high.

Student answer: No, No because he keeps his thumb on the bulb of the bottom of the thermometer.

Student answer: No, Because the boy's temperature is hot and the red liquid will go up.

Student answer: No, It will change if hold it because you are heating the thermometer by the bulb.

Student answer: Yes, I think yes because if you put your thumb there the heat from your body makes yourself heat in your own body.

Student answer: No, It will not because they will be measuring finger temperature.

Student answer: No, If you hold the bulb it would get hotter because some of the heat in your body will gain the thermometer.

Student answer: No, Because of that student's body heat.

Student answer: No, No because your fingers are hot. And it makes the water stuff inside go to different temperature.

Student answer: No, If you hold the bottom of the thermometer the temperature will go up it give it more heat.

Student answer: Yes, Well the alcohol needs the sun or shade to change the bulb of the thermometer, but if something or someone is blocking it, the alcohol will not go neither up nor down.

Student answer: No, I say no because when your body temperature is not the same as air temperature which makes it go up.

Student answer: No, It will not be the same because it would absorb the heat and increase the number.

Student answer: No, Because if a student had the thermometer by the bulb the thermometer would measure the temperature of his or her body not the object.

Student answer: No, Because it is somewhere different so it is going to get a different reading. The temperature is one.

Student answer: No, Because it would read how cold or hot is the bulb and that is what it would read.

Student answer: No, because the student is measuring something else that might not have the same temperature as the student's hand, so the thermometer will read the temperature of the student's hand.

Student answer: Yes, Because if you put your hand on the round part the air is not going to feel thermometer.

Student answer: No, Because he will be tall so then that is why.

Student answer: No, Because the bulb is the part that will see how hot something is so if you put your hand or finger on the bulb it would read your body temperature so it would rise.

Student answer: No, No because your body has a temperature of 98.6 degrees F.

Student answer: No, It would not read the same your body temperature is hotter than 5 Celsius.

Student answer: No, It could not be the same because maybe what you are measuring is hotter or colder than your thumb so it would not come out accurate.

Student answer: No, if someone held a thermometer by the bulb then the thermometer would sense your hands and the degrees would rise.

Student answer: No, it would not be the same because it would be taking in the body temperature.

Student answer: No, It would be warmer because the warmth and pressure of your fingers would give warmth to the bulb.

Student answer: No, no because when you are hold the thermometer by it is bulb the bulb will not read the temperature.

Student answer: No, I say no because the thermometer would not be measuring the temperature of the object. It would be measuring the temperature of the student's fingers.

Student answer: No, I think no because if you put your finger to the bulb your fingers heat will go to the bulb and it will measure your heat from your finger.

Student answer: No, No because the temperature would be changed.