We have been learning about the weather all year in Kindergarten. We have been tracking the temperature all year and tracking in our classroom by adding a colored link attached to a temperature range so students can see patterns in our weather. We stretched our learning more when we explored what would happen to ice in the sun and in the shade. Students made predictions and hypotheses and then we experimented by putting the ice in the sun and in the shade in four different areas. This experiment helped us get ready to exploring shade structures and what would be needed to protect a popscicle from the sun.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the kindergartners worked with their 4th grade partners on with the ice in the sun and ice in the shade. Then we designed our shade structures and constructed them on Tuesday. On Wednesday we tested out our structures. It has been so HOT that it only took about 9 minutes for the control freezepop to completely melt. We then took the freezepops out of the structures and measured how much of the freezepop melted. The students had an extra recess while we all waited for the control pop to melt. Then when we were going over the results the students were able to eat their own freezepop.
