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activity Cause and effect Level 1

Which Melts First?

Two ice cubes, two places. Which one wins?

  1. 1Put one ice cube somewhere warm and one somewhere cold.
  2. 2They say which will melt first, and why.
  3. 3Go and do something else. Come back and look.
10 minutes You need: ice, plates

Why it helps: Cause and effect: predicting, waiting to see, then explaining why it happened.

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