For the past several days, we have been learning about water and how it affects our weather. The students experimented with water freezing and melting. We placed cups of water, with a small object placed inside, in the freeze to see what would happen.
The following day we took out our cups and the water had turned to ice! The kids were so excited to go get their cups! We explored our ice cube and experimented with different things to see if we could figure out a way to get it to melt quicker. What a mess we made and what fun we had!
* Ice will melt faster if you hold it in your warm hands.
* Salt helps ice to melt faster.
* Sand did not help the ice melt faster.
* Using a knife or paperclip to scrap at the ice helped it to melt faster.
* Wrapping the ice in a paper towel did not help it to melt faster.
* The ice cube turned into a puddle as it started to melt.
* Water was dripping everywhere.
* Water in weather could be rain, snow, ice or hail.
We finally got our time lapse video of the melting ice! The third time was a charm. The children watched it to see how the ice slowly melted! They instantly noticed that the temperature went up on the thermometer. Check out our time lapse below:
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