Ice ice baby
What cooler than being cool? Ice cold! (topic science)
On Wednesday we did some more science experiments, this time looking at ice, freezing, melting and heat. Our friend and yours; Elsa, had some disastrous ice mishaps and accidently froze her friends. She asked the classes to discover the fastest way to defrost her friends (counting bear and counting humanoid). We tested what would melt ice quicker. We tested hot water, cold water, salt, hammering/tools and doing nothing. The children predicted that hot water would be fastest and doing nothing would be slowest. This turned out to be true with hot water taking 20 seconds and doing nothing taking 12 hours!
Predictions: a controversial second place for salt.
Hot water
Salt.
Cold water.
Hammering/spoon. (results partially visible, salt turning out to be surprisingly fast)
After doing our experiment, the children had choosing time, where they could repeat the experiment for themselves. The children were really engaged and didn't relent until all the ice was melted!
Intense hammer focus.
The results:
Big shout out goes to our resident hammer star who hammered till the bitter end, even as I was trying to tidy up!
