Lesson 4: Freeze or melt?

Exploring ice and investigating different ways to melt chocolate.

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Learning objective

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to:

  • Talk to children about their personal experiences of melting and freezing, such as melting ice creams or frozen ice cubes in drinks.
  • Challenge the children to suggest alternative ways to stop ice cubes from melting or making chocolate melt faster.

Key vocabulary

  • freeze

  • melt

In this topic

Lesson 3: Float or sink? Previous Lesson
Lesson 5: Light or dark? Next Lesson

Lesson 5: Light or dark?

Lesson 1: Push or pull?

Lesson 3: Float or sink?

Lesson 2: Loud or quiet?

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