Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that water is a material and ice is water in a different state.
- Observe a block of ice and consider how to change its state.
- Devise an investigation to melt the ice quickly or slowly.
- Make predictions about the outcome and test those predictions in the classroom.
- Generate questions about ice and water and consider why it is useful for people to know how to regulate the melting of ice.
Activities
- Understand that water is a material and ice is water in a different state.
- Consider, predict and then explore ways of speeding up or slowing down the melting of ice.
Vocabulary
Water, ice, melts, frozen, observe, materials, properties