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Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenWhat Happens When Ice Melts?
What Happens When Ice Melts?.
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.
Mind = Blown
💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?
What You'll Learn
When water gets very cold, it freezes into ice. When ice gets warm, it melts back into water.
Key Words
- solid
- liquid
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Put an ice cube on a plate and watch it for 10 minutes. Draw what it looks like every 2 minutes.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What happens when you heat ice?
Where you see this in real life
Your toothpaste, your soap, even your breakfast involves this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Ask a grown-up to help you mix two safe kitchen things. Predict what will happen first.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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