Instant Ice Experiment
- Year groups
- Years 3–9 (Key Stages 2–3)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Art, Creative Arts, Science
- Topic
- Instant Ice Experiment, Ice Experiment
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Activity Introduction
An amazing activity/craft designed for the students to have fun learning about our daily activities or even to have fun doing some DIY crafts.
Instant Ice
Do you like group activities or crafts that you can enjoy with your friends and family? Or do you like individual activities and crafts that you can do on your own then show the world how creative you are?
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Instant Ice Activity
The activity is perfect for encouraging the creativity skills for the students, while having fun with our cool activities and crafts.
Instant Ice
This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.
Instructions
Put the water bottle in the freezer for two hours.
Remove the bottle before it freezes - when you start seeing crystals forming.
Place the bowl upside down inside the flat tray to catch the water dripping over.
Place an ice cube on top of the bowl.
Start pouring water from your bottle slowly over it, and watch instant ice forms!
Format
Available in a PDF format.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Observe supercooled water turning to ice on contact with an ice cube
Propose an explanation for how the instant ice forms
Teaching tips
Timing is the tricky part: the bottle comes out of the freezer when ice crystals first appear, before it freezes solid.
Skills covered
Scientific observation — watching and describing ice forming as the water is poured
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What materials does the experiment need?
A bottle of water, a freezer, ice cubes, a ceramic bowl and a flat plastic tray to catch the runoff.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
States of matter
Freezing point
Supercooling
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