Ice melt experiments
Time: 20-30 minutes
Materials: Ice cubes, experiment materials (varies)
Activity: Water is special on our planet because it exists as gas (in the air or steam), liquid, and solid (ice). When a solid turns into a liquid, we call that melting. Tell kids you will be doing an experiment on melting ice. Possible experimental comparisons: in water vs in the air, in the shade vs in the sun, salted vs no salt, outside vs inside, at different temperatures. The data you collect will be on the time it takes to melt. Set up your experiment, make guesses about what will happen, and see if your guesses were right. Remind kids that even if they didn’t guess what will happen, they learned something and that is the point of science.
Categories:
Nature & Science, Math