🧊 Saving the LEGO Men! A Year 1 Science Adventure 🧪
This week in Year 1, we had a very important mission! We received a letter from none other than the Chief Inspector at the LEGO Factory. 😮 He told us there was a big problem – some LEGO men had gotten trapped in ice, and they needed our help to rescue them!
📩 The Mission
The LEGO men were frozen solid, and we had to figure out how to melt the ice to save them. This wasn’t just play – it was a real science investigation! We needed to explore how solids can change into liquids and test which methods would work the best.
🔬 Becoming Scientists
We split into research teams and each group chose a different way to try and melt the ice. Everyone made predictions first, then tested their theories in mini science labs (also known as the Panther and Lion classrooms! 😄).
🧠 Our Investigations Included:
🕯️ Using warm water – Would pouring warm water over the ice speed things up?
☀️ Putting the ice on the windowsill in the sun – Could sunlight alone melt the ice?
💡 Putting the ice directly under a lamp, like when we had chicks under lamp in the incubators.
💨 Blowing warm air – What if we used our breath or a hairdryer?
✋ Holding the ice – Could the warmth from our hands melt it?
🧂 Adding salt – Some of us had heard that salt melts ice faster… time to test that out!
🧰 Putting the ice in a box and shaking it!
🍳 Knocking the ice on a hard surface and cracking it like an egg.
🧊 The Results Are In!
After careful testing, observing, and a lot of excitement, we found that:
✅ Hitting it with a hammer took 19 minutes.
Cracking it against a hard surface like an egg took 3 minutes and 3 seconds.
🌞 The sun and under a lamp worked too, but it took much longer. Over an hour.
🙌 And yes, we managed to rescue all the LEGO men in the end!
We wrote letters to explain our findings.
What We Learned
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Ice is a solid, but when it warms up, it melts into a liquid.
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Heat helps solids turn into liquids.
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Scientists ask questions, test ideas, and learn from what happens – just like we did!
🎉 A Big Well Done!
We had so much fun being scientists and helping the LEGO factory. The Chief Inspector will be thrilled to hear that all his LEGO men are safe and sound. 🦸♂️🧊🚿
Stay tuned for more science adventures coming soon… 👩🔬👨🔬