Ice Eggs in Science

1. Ice Eggs in Science EYFS KS1 KS2

2. Ice Eggs for Foundation • Rationale for Ice Eggs in EYFS • Ice Egg Hunt • Playing with Ice Eggs • Cross Curricular links

3. Rationale EYFS • During this early stage children will need time to play with the ice eggs before you introduce an activity. • Children can use their sense to explore the ice eggs. • Health & Safety!

4. Ice Egg Hunt • Aim: To encourage children to try and recognise colder/hotter places. • Place ice eggs in various locations and encourage the children to think where would be the best place to try and hide an ice egg. • After children have gone on their ice egg hunt, ask the children where they think a bad place to hide an ice egg would be.

5. Playing with Ice Eggs • Aim: Encourage the children to observe changes in the ice eggs. • Provide children with different materials such as sand, water, hot water bottles etc. • See what they notice about the effects these materials have on the ice eggs.

6. Cross Curricular Links • Ice Egg Art: Provide children with different diluted coloured dye’s to pour over their ice egg. • Make your own ice eggs, play with different shapes and sizes.

7. Ice Eggs for KS1 • Rationale for Ice Eggs in KS1 • Alien Egg Investigation • Recording Results • Cross Curricular links

8. Rationale for Ice eggs in KS1 • To develop scientific enquiry skills. • Tell children you have been given two different types of alien eggs by scientist that need their help. One alien egg is good as must survive, one is dangerous and must be destroyed! • Fair test • Observing results • Recording results

9. Alien Egg Investigation • Aim: Children to carry out their own investigation in to where to put an alien egg they want to survive and where to put one that they don’t. • Encourage Children to come up with predictions, other than just putting the alien eggs in to hot/cold places? (hot/cold water). • As a class decide on method – timings for experiment, how to make it a fair test etc.

10. Calling all Stars and Space Explorers! What planet do you think we should put the good alien eggs on? We have received a batch of frozengoodalien eggs which must survive and a batch of frozen dangerousalien eggs which must not survive ! What planet do you think we should put the dangerous alien eggs on? Mars Venus Earth Mercury Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

11. Recording Results What was my question? • Which type of planet would we want to put the good alien egg on? • Which type of planet would we put the dangerous alien egg on? Draw a picture of what we did Draw a picture of our results

12. Cross Curricular Links • Alien Egg Art: Draw a picture of the alien you think either of the eggs belong to. • Literacy: Write a poem about the frozen planet these ice alien eggs have come from.

13. Ice Eggs for KS2 • Rationale for Ice Eggs in KS2 • Fresh Water Ice Eggs Vs Salt Water Ice Eggs • Cross Curricular links

14. Rationale for Ice Eggs in KS2 • To learn what happens when you freeze water and what happens when it melts. • Using appropriate scientific language and terms including SI units of measurement. • Recording continuous data.

15. Fresh Water Ice Eggs Vs Salt Water Ice Eggs • Make one ice egg using fresh water and one with water that has had salt added to it. • Put both in the freezer having made predications as to which one will freeze best and why. • Because it needs to be much colder for salt water to freeze the fresh water Ice egg should freeze first • Links: helps explain why the Antarctic ice sheet is frozen even though salt doesn’t freeze.

16. Cross Curricular Links • PE: Ice dance to ‘frozen’ music. • Geography: Melting polar ice caps and climate change. • Numeracy: Calculating and comparing temperature.

17. Resources • http://www.climatelab.co.uk/p/ice_cap_meltdown.pdf • http://www.climatelab.co.uk/ • http://primaryscience.net/ • http://www.primaryinteractive.co.uk/science.htm • http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science.htm