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What Happens When Ice Melts?

🧪Lab Brief #2

What Happens When Ice Melts?.

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

If it bubbles, something invisible is escaping.

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Mind = Blown

🧪 If you could remove all the empty space from atoms, the entire human race would fit in a sugar cube.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: will the fizz be loud, soft, or none at all?

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

Step 1 — Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 — Do

Put an ice cube on a plate and watch it for 10 minutes. Draw what it looks like every 2 minutes.

Step 3 — Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 4 — Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What happens when you heat ice?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.

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For the dinner table

“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”

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