Lesson 47 of 84 · Matter
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenEvaporating Puddles (Part 2)
Evaporating Puddles (Part 2).
🎯 Your mission
Run the sim. Spot the pattern.
⚡ 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
Water evaporates when it gets warm—it turns from liquid into gas. That is how puddles dry up!
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
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
This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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