![]() ![]() Have the children mark the water level on the sides of their containers and draw their water levels in their journals. ![]() Ask each team to move their container to a location where it can be viewed by the whole team. Distribute the containers of water, paper towels, and the Ice Investigator Journals.Can they name some of the properties of ice they learned about in The Amazing Expanding Ice experiment? What they learned should include that ice is less dense than water and water expands as it freezes.What are some of the properties of ice? Answers will vary, but may include its color, how it feels, its temperature, etc.Use this opportunity to review and reinforce the concept of properties, and convey to the children that properties can also include the way a substance behaves. Introduce the activity by revisiting what the children have learned so far about the properties of ice.Ice from the Amazing Expanding Ice activity.1 clear pitcher (or other container) that is at least twice as tall as, and several times the volume of, the ice the children created in the Amazing Expanding Ice activity.A pencil, colored pencils, markers or crayonsįor each group of three to four children:.Density is a measure of the mass per unit volume of a substance.Physical properties include color, smell, freezing/melting point, and density. Physical properties are characteristics of a substance.Because of this property, ice floats in water. Ice is a unique substance because its solid state - ice - is less dense than its liquid state.Children ages 8 to 13 observe an ice cube in water and - literally - draw conclusions about properties of ice based on their observations! What's the Point?
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