What is melting? Today’s experiment is very simple. We made some ice cubes and then put them in different places to watch them melt.
You can use standard ice cubes or any shaped moulds you have around the house.
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What you need:
- Ice cubes of the same size
- Containers for the ice cubes.
Instructions
- Place each ice cube in a container.
- Put the ice cubes in different places, we put ours outside, inside and in the fridge.
- Time how long it takes each to melt.
First we discussed what makes ice melt and predicted which would melt the fastest.
Can you design a table to record your results?
What is melting?
Melting is when a substance changes from a solid to a liquid. Water freezes to ice when it is cooled to below 0 degrees, when ice is warmed to above 0 degree it turns back into water.
To expand this experiment you could try the ice cubes in more places, or observe and photograph at 10 minute intervals.
Recording the temperature in each place would also be useful.
Our Results
The first time we did this, the one outside melted faster than the one inside. We decided there could have been a few reasons for this, one being that the outside ice might have been smaller than the inside one, or the weather had an impact.
We tried again on a different day and found as expected the man inside melted faster than the one outside.
More fun
What do you think would happen if you covered your ice cubes with bubble wrap or foil? Can you investigate?
We’ve got even more ice experiments here.
What fantastic ice lego men! I wish we had something that would suit the link up this week, but will have to wait until next. Enjoy your weekend, Kelly.
Looking forward to seeing you next week. x
Love the lego man ice cube! 🙂
they are cool aren’t they? We got them from legoland. x
those ice cubes are great!
They are meant to be ice lollies really! x
I love your lego man ice cube. My eldest daughter gets so excited by experiments like this.
oh thank you. xx
Very fun ideas!
Always fun to play and learn with ice!
Saw your linky at the Sunday Showcase, so wanted to pop by to say hello.
Hope that you will come by my blog, Sunrise Learning Lab, and see what we are up to this week.
Colleen:)