Icy Experiment

Today we decided to take advantage of the cold weather and do an icy experiment.

First thing in the morning we filled up six yogurt containers and one milk jug with water. Then we added food colouring. We only had the primary colours to we had to mix them to make other colours.
Then we put the jugs outside and waiting to see what would happen. At the end of the day Ms. Janz brought our containers up so we could observe what happened.

We noticed that:
-The water turned to ice.
-The ice slid out of the yogurt container easily, the milk jug ice got stuck.
-The milk jug water wasn't frozen solid. We could see water and air inside.
-When Mrs. Lowe made a hole in the ice, we could see water coming out and air going in and making bubbles.
-The ice was starting to melt. We think this could be because it it warm in our classroom, or because of the lights.

Tomorrow we will make more ice sculpture. This time we will:
-Label the jugs so we know what colours we put in.
-Freeze the jugs in a safer place (some were kicked over today)
-TAKE PHOTOS!
-Use timers to keep track of how long it takes for ice to freeze and melt.

Here's what some students had to say:

We worked very hard on it and we put colours in it. - Dante

We were really careful and someone kicked it and said they were sorry. - Denise

We put water outside so it would freeze - Chase 

We made beautiful ice sculpture with coulors like green and orange and black - Cassie 

The kids were sorry they broke our guiding - Gabriel 

I like the when the block broke - autumn 

Mrs lowe poked a hole in the ice with scissors - Ellie 

It was very cool because I was picking a piece of ice from the brick and I wrapped it up and it was melting - Ethan