Science and ice-cream

You may ask what science and ice-cream have to do with each other. Well today we found out! We had Miss Butcher help us investigate what happens when we cool milk. We had to make predictions about what would happen to the milk when we cooled it down with ice. There were a few different ideas about what would happen.

Then we got to put milk, sugar and vanilla essence in a ziplock bag. We filled another bag with ice and salt and then placed the first bag of milk inside the bag of ice. 

The fun part was mixing it all up. Our hands got very cold! The milk first became slushy and then became more solid, just like ice-cream. We actually got to eat it! Some of our ice-cream was delicious but some of the ice-cream tasted a little salty as we had not sealed our bag well.

The excitement of the investigation and then actually getting to eat the outcome was over the top. Those dazzling smiles were all around and the conversation about science and the change of substances was very intense. What fun we had!