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Ice Melting


Core Learning Experience + Supplies and Equipment

  • ​Show the children how you fill an ice cube tray with running water from the tap, and place it in the freezer. Have the children feel how cold it is in there. When the ice is frozen, dump the cubes on a tray, and have each child take a cube and put it in an individual small bowl. Observe and describe what happens when fingers touch the ice, and how long it takes to melt in the bowl.
  • Place a cube in the sun, one at room temperature, and one in the fridge. Difference in melting times?

Possible/Expected Discoveries

​​Water can be a liquid or a solid and can go back and forth from one form to the otherMake a prediction. When the ice is refrozen in the individual bowls, will it be the same shape as the original cube? Try it. What happened?

Extended Learning and Other Curriculum Areas

  • ​​Draw on paper with ice cubes colored with food coloring. Is it possible to refreeze the ice cube after drawing with it? Why?
  • Suck on an ice cube. Let’s use a timer to see how long it takes to disappear. Compare it to one melting in a dish. Which is faster/slower, and why?
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  • Home
  • Lesson Plans Index
    • Life Science Plants and Animals >
      • Comparing Leaves
      • Exploring Pumpkins
      • Shucking Corn
      • Earthworm Observation
      • Parent and Baby Animals
      • Collecting Ants
      • Spider Season
      • Visit to a Pet Store
      • Living and Non Living Things
      • Animals Come in Many Shapes, Sizes and Colors
      • Ways Animals Move
      • Animals Need to Eat
      • Difference Between Wild and Tame Animals
      • People Can Use Products Provided by Animals and Plants
      • Animal Coverings - Hair, Fur, Feathers, Scales and Skin
      • Animals Live in Different Places
      • Metamorphosis and Change in Biology
      • Nocturnal Animals
      • Egg Science
      • Exploring Fish
      • Tree Skin Bark
      • Roots Growing Potatoes in Water
      • Stems - Making Daisy and Clover Chains
      • Flowers
      • Digging in the Dirt
    • Life Science People Index >
      • Parts of Our Body and How We Use Them
      • Our Heart
      • Our Hands
      • Our Feet
      • Fun With Balance
      • Sound Search
      • Sense of Touch
      • Exploring the Sense of Sight
      • Follow That Scent
      • Stop That Germ!
      • Interesting Tools That Doctors Use
      • We Need Healthy Teeth
      • Keep Those Muscles Moving!
    • Physical Science Index >
      • Blowing Bubbles
      • Magnify!
      • Ways to Measure Time
      • Magnetic Attraction
      • Ramps in Motion
      • Ice Melting
      • Sink or Float a Boat
      • Sponges and water
      • Dropping Things Through the Air
      • Static Electricity
      • Battery Electricity
      • Properties of Soap and Water
      • Weights and Balances
      • How Can Heat Change Things?
      • Tools Can Help Us Do Things
      • Lifting with Levers
      • Wheels
      • Predicting How Simple Machines Will Work
      • Computers and Other Devices
      • Discoveries With Straws
      • Different Ways of Making Light
    • Earth and Sky Science Index >
      • Shadow Chasing
      • Sun Effects
      • The Night Sky
      • Kinds of Clouds
      • Dressing for the Season
      • Classifying Rocks
      • Colors of the Rainbow
      • Who Has Seen the Wind?
      • Rain
      • Snow
      • Litter Hunt
      • We Can Take Care of the Earth
  • Teaching Notes
  • Links
  • Contact