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Icy Investigations
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In this activity, learners of all ages can enjoy experimenting with ice. Try this experiment at the kitchen table or in the great outdoors to encourage budding scientists to experiment with ice.

Make Your Own Slushies
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In this activity, learners will make their own slushies and learn some of the science behind how the process works.

Earth's Energy Cycle: Albedo
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In this activity, learners experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.

Ice Melt
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In this activity, learners will explore basic information about thermodynamics by experimenting with ice. Learners will compare ice melting rates on metal pans or plastic cutting boards.

Why Doesn’t the Ocean Freeze?
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In this activity, learners explore how salt water freezes in comparison to fresh water.

Jem's Pykrete Challenge
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In this activity, learners make pykrete by freezing a mixture of water and a material like cotton wool, grass, hair, shredded paper, wood chips, or sawdust.

Ice Balloons
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In this activity, learners will explore globes of frozen water to learn how to ask and then answer 'investigable' questions. The activity web page includes a short video demonstration.

Supercooled Water Drops
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In this activity, learners touch supercooled water drops with an ice crystal and trigger the water drops to freeze instantly.

Earth's Water: A Drop in Your Cup
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This creative lesson plan provides a visual way for learners to gain knowledge about the finite amount of fresh water on Earth and encourages the discussion of the various ways to conserve this resour

Let's Dew It!
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From the Weather Watchers featured theme on the CYBERCHASE website. Learners will conduct experiments to discover how air temperature and humidity work together to make condensation, dew, and fog.

Make a Comet on a Stick
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In this activity, learners craft their own model of a comet on a stick to make it fly around the room.

Polar Bear Glove
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In this activity, learners will explore how animal in cold areas stay warm.

Ice Cream Shake
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In this tasty activity, learners make their own ice cream any day of the year in an exploration of heat and cold. Highlights include freezing and melting and the transition from liquid to solid.

Mini Glacier Meltdown
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This activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity) is a full inquiry investigation about the different causes of glacial melt.

Investigating Ice Worlds
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In this activity about the solar system, learners use various light sources to examine ice with different components to understand how NASA studies planets and moons from space.

Moving Model Glacier
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In this goopy activity (page 2 of PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity), learners will model glacial movement with “gak,” a white glue and liquid starch mixture.

Instant Ice
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In this activity, learners observe a quick phase change as water rapidly goes from a liquid state to a solid state.

Meltdown
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In this activity, learners heat ice and water of the same temperature to get a hands-on look at phase changes. This is an easy and inexpensive way to introduce states of matter and thermodynamics.

We all Scream for Ice Cream
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In this activity, learners observe how salinity affects the freezing point of water by making and enjoying ice cream.
Making An Impact!
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In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.