Together we decided, that the snow melted and turned into water! But how did it happen?
Students had lots of ideas how the snow melted. Here are a few of their ideas:
"You put the blanket.. it's so hot!" -Divjot
"The snow melt because if it's cold the snow will stay but if it's hot it will melt." -Nyada
" It melt from the heat.. it's get warm turned to water." - Momna
"he put coffee inside.. (it melted) because coffee is hot." - Mariam
"the snow melt the water the lights melt the snow and the water comes." - Mahtab
" the classroom was really really really warm when people bring snow inside houses it melts into water." - Usmaan
This idea of "melting" led our curiousity as we continued to explore and deepen our understanding of what the term means.
We read the story, "Sneezy the Snowman" and learned that when things were too hot they caused Sneezy to melt. First, he drank hot cocoa, then he went into a hot tub, and then he stood by a camp fire. All these reasons caused Sneezy to melt.
After reading the story, we started discussing other things that were hot, some students even began making connections to places that were too hot.
Next, we got the opportunity to get messy and have some fun as we made our own melted snowmen! Students were happy and excited to mix around some snow goop (shaving cream and glue) and create a melty, droopy snowman!
In science, we learn that we can use our five senses to make observations and share ideas. Students used their sense of sight, smell and touch to share about their melted snowman experience:
"I think it felt like a raindrop from a cloud." - Aradia
" Looks like ice cream." - Qayinat
" it smells like lotion." - Ahmad
" it looked like whipped cream. " - Avalynn
Finally, we had a chance to draw a picture and write a story to explain how our snowmen melted.
Here are some of our stories:
"My snowman went close to the lava and then he melted.. because the lava is hot!" - Muhammad H.
"Once upon a time he had a blowdryer because he was getting ready for a party and he melted because it's too hot!" - Keeratdeep
"Once upon a time my snowmen went to a desert and he melted because it's so hot and sunny." - Jessie
