Year 2’s Ice Challenge

This week Year 2 kicked off the ‘ice’ part of their Fire and Ice topic with a challenge. They had to melt one ice cube as fast as possible and keep the other frozen as long as possible.

They learnt that using their own bodies to heat the ice cubes was the fastest method, but also that using salt can accelerate the melting process (we didn’t go into why at this stage).

The group that kept their ice cube from melting for the longest had loosely wrapped it in some cloth and put it into a cup. This worked better than blowing on the ice cube which lots of groups tried. 

Great learning Year 2 😊