A Bimetallic strip is used to convert a temperature change into

mechanical displacement. The strip consists of two strips of different metals

which expand at different rates as they are heated, usually steel and copper,
or in some cases steel and brass. The strips are joined together throughout
their length by riveting, brazing or welding. The different expansions force
the flat strip to bend one way if heated, and in the opposite direction if
cooled below its initial temperature. The metal with the higher coefficient of
thermal expansion is on the outer side of the curve when the strip is heated
and on the inner side when cooled
So as I said in the definition it consist of two strip of metal, an electric switch
and heat source.

How it functions:
As you can see the two metal
are attached to each other so
whenever we apply heat source to
one side of the metal it will expand
in length to reach the electric
switch to close the circuit and vice
versa so that when the source of
heat starts to decrease it will open
the circuit and return to its original shape.

For example the iron that we use to straighten the clothes we hear TIK
voice when the red light shows and another TIK when the red light disappear
which indicates that the circuit is closed or open