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Solar Matters II- Ice Cube Race

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss the methods of energy transfer. In this energy transfer lesson, students use ice to demonstrate what happens when energy is transferred. Students complete a Science Journal page as an assessment.
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What Changes Occur When Ice Melts?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the physical process of melting. They observe melting ice and answer questions related to energy transfer during phase changes.
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Activity
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Ice Earrings Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students put a piece of string between 2 ice cubes and fuse them together with pressure. In this ice lesson plan, students see how the cubes stick together.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thermal Expansion and Sea Level Rise

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Placing a thermometer and a glass tube into a flask of cold water and sealing it, you can expose it to heat and very visually demonstrate thermal expansion to your earth science class. Follow it with a discussion about how the increasing...
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Virginia Department of Education

States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scientists have been studying exothermic reactions before they were cool. The lesson begins with a discussion and a demonstration of heat curves. Scholars then determine the heat of fusion of ice and the heat needed to boil water through...
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Handout
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Climate Change

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Rising sea levels, strong storms, melting ice ... who or what is to blame? Scholars browse the website in preparation for a class discussion or debate about whether human activity is causing climate change. They gain a balanced...
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Ice Cold

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars design and conduct an experiment to investigate what happens when salt and ice come together and to determine if one form of salt is better for melting ice on steps and sidewalks.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform experiments in pairs to visualize the changes in water during freezing and melting. In this properties of water lesson, students use their senses and inquiry tools to understand the changes in state of water. Suggested...
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Curated OER

Melting and Freezing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how various substances change from a solid to a liquid or from a liquid to a solid and how temperature, pressure and nature play an important role in this process. In this melting and freezing lesson, students review the...
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Curated OER

Amazing Salt

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine the effects of salt on ice. In this salt lesson, students observe what happens to the temperature of ice when salt is added, then make ice cream to see how this knowledge can be used.
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Curated OER

The Big Melt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students experiment with a variety of materials used for insulation by melting ice cubes.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Introduction to Climate

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Begin a full activity on climate change by demonstrating how carbon dioxide gas contributes to increased temperatures. Be aware that pressure inside the antacid-containing bottle in Activity 2 may cause the lid to fly off; keep viewers...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Don't Slip

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Salt is the go-to material when people need to melt ice—learn the chemistry behind its effectiveness with an interactive lesson. Pupils watch a short narrative and then explore the concept through a simulation. Young scientists...
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PPT
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This PowerPoint is a gem! Seventy-eight slides present an entire introduction to matter in bullet-point fashion. Viewers learn about everything from mass and inertia to phase changes and gas laws! The only glitch is that the links to...
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Ice Melting Investigation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students conduct an ice melting investigation in which they observe and measure the melting of two ice spheres. They develop a hypothesis as to which sphere will melt the fastest, collect data every ten minutes, and graph the data using...
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Understanding the Ice

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners explore the concept of sea ice. In this sea ice lesson plan, students interview arctic hunters to regarding the sea ice safety and attributes.
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Water 3: Melting and Freezing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand that most substances may exist as solids, liquids, or gases depending on the temperature, pressure, and nature of that substance. This knowledge is critical to understanding that water in our world is constantly...
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Melt the Ice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine and discuss how water changes from a liquid to a solid to a gas. They explore this concept by having an ice cube race, competing to see which group can change the solid water back into liquid water first.
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Identifying Sea Ice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study different types of sea ice and interview an Yupik elder or local hunter. In this sea ice instructional activity, students study the native language for sea ice terms. They interview an elder from Alaska's northern coast...
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Slippery, Slippery Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate how salt affects ice by experimenting in class.  In this water properties lesson, students utilize a penny, salt and pans of ice to examine the sliding ability of a penny across a layer of ice.  Students then place...
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Ice Balloons

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore the properties of ice. In this states of water lesson, students examine the properties of icebergs and ice cubes as they participate in an activity that requires them to freeze a balloon half-filled with water and freeze...
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The Frigid Gourmet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a " science surprise" or ice cream in the lab. In this melting point depression lesson plan, students use various substances with ice to determine the effects on the melting point of ice and the ability to make ice cream....
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Curated OER

Cold Hard Facts...What Inquiring Minds Will Know

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students work with "ice" in order to gain a practical application of math concepts that evolve into an inquiry-based study. They determine if the dimensions of the ice make a difference in the way the ice floats in the water.
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Polar Trec

Foraging for Fish in a Melting Arctic

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
How much do you know about the black guillemot of the Arctic region? With great background information, images, and a quick discussion, the class will learn all about the plight of the foraging seabird as they play a fun game. First,...

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