New Science Unit: Liquids and Solids

We started our new Science unit this week. We are looking at changing states of matter. This week we focused on liquids and solids.

We did a super fun science experiment yesterday called "The Great Ice Race". The task challenged students to determine how to change the solid (ice) into a liquid (water). Students worked in teams to try to melt 2 ice cubes inside of a ziploc bag. The teams were challenged to melt the ice with only their hands. They could not take the ice out of the bag! Students had to work together to come up with a plan and determine different strategies to make that ice melt as fast as they could. Students came up with some creative ways to melt the ice. The fastest team melted their ice in 4 minutes. Way to go everyone! Ask your child all about it!
After the experiment, we talked about what we could do to make the solid (ice) melt faster into a liquid (water). We posted our thinking on Padlet and Twitter.  Here is our Padlet thinking - what did we learn from this science experiment? Have a read to find out. http://padlet.com/wall/liquidsolid