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Elmwood School, Hopkinton, MA:
My class enjoyed trying variations on this experiment with black vs white surfaces, sunny vs shady locations, covered vs non-covered cups, single cup vs double cup, black top vs grassy surfaces and varied shapes of ice (same 100 ml quantity). At 1:10 p.m. with a Celsius temperature of 28 Celsius, our covered and double cup ice cubes have not reached total meltdown!!
Butler School, Springfield, IL
We have had a great time doing the icecube experiment. It was fun charting all of the locations on a map together.
Micklefield School, Cape Town, S. Africa
The girls were really interested in the experiment and so were the class teacher and student teacher! An Extra experiment was going on too - the temperature of the ice as it melted.
John J. Doyle School, Porterville, CA
This experiment has been so much fun. It's amazing how much learning can come out of such a simple experiment. We can't wait to download the data! Thanks Windsor Schools!
Mt. Bethel Elementary, Marietta, GA
We had a lot of fun with this! We had trial runs at home on different days... and that gave the kids a baseline.... they thought... for a good guess. They were using standard sized cubes, which are much smaller than our 100 mL. We had several "control cups" that we were watching as well. One was in the garden... in pine straw... in the same direct sun. We were sure the ice on the brick would go first... and it did... just a moment before the other. The kids want to continue comparing water mixed with many different ingredients (i.e. salt). One observation that Jason made was that the level of the ice and water in the cup stayed constant.
Micklefield School, Cape Town, South Africa
Grade 5 says:
Thank you to all the participants for your enthusiasm and co-operation in this project. We enjoyed it very much. We thought that our ice cube would be one of the quickest to melt but we didnít know that our temperature would be one of the coldest that day. St Lukeís wrote and told us that they guessed their schoolís ice cube and ours would take the same time to melt, but theirs melted faster.
We were not quite sure about one of the places as the temperature was the coldest but it melted in the shortest time! There were also some schools that did not give their latitudes so we could not put them on our graphs.
We figured out that there were quite a few ways that could affect the melting time. If the sun shone on the cup, the temperature on the day, the surface it was placed on and where it was placed. We noticed that most of the schools in the Northern hemisphere had temperatures in the 20s (Celcius) and those schools in the Southern hemisphere had temperatures less than 20 deg C that day.
We think the project was very educational and we learnt a lot.
(Taken from reports the girls wrote)
Our favourite part:
Seeing how close our estimations were. (Jess R)
Waiting for the ice to melt and filling in the booklet (Lisa) Waiting for how long the ice would melt to check my guess (Shelley)
It was interesting to see the ice melt in a cylinder shape.(Jess W) My favourite part was when we had to keep on going outside (Caroline)
Doing the book because we worked in a team (Caitlin)
Thank you from Grade 5, Micklefield
Lilydale West Primary School, Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
We really enjoyed the experience your Ice Cube experiment offered us. As with many of the schools, we set up not only our test ice cube but also many others, in varying locations and recorded their meltdown times. Our children were surprised that the ones inside took longer to melt than most of the ones outside. Since reading all the information on your web site we have discussed Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature readings, longitude and latitude and have pin pointed the location of various schools in our atlases .Our children were puzzled by the fact that although some areas had warmer conditions it took longer for their ice to melt. In the past few weeks we have studied water as a solid, liquid and gas .We have looked at the water cycle in depth and have undertaken other experiments. Over the next three weeks all the Grade 3 and 4 children at Lilydale West Primary School have to investigate, write up practise and perform their own experiment showing change.
THANKYOU for the opportunity to take part in your project.
From LWPS409