Winter Investigation
This month as part of our Nature Inspired learning, the pre-prep class has been exploring the Winter season.
The concept of living day to day in an extreme climate, such as the Arctic, is difficult for our children to understand.
Living in Queensland; icey icons, snow and below zero weather conditions aren’t something they get the opportunity to experience.
The class began their winter investigation of the Arctic, learning about:
- The unique species that live in the Arctic (animals, mammals, birds, fish and small plants);
- How people adapt, survive and thrive in the extreme weather conditions;
- Type of clothing they wear;
- Whether the ice is eatable; and
- Do people really live in igloos?
While researching the Artic and facts about ice and icebergs we stumbled upon the concept of making homemade ice cream in a bag. This excited the class and was an experiment we had to try.
How to make ice cream in a bag
Requirements:
- 4 cups of crushed ice
- 1/3 cup Salt
- 250 ml of Full cream milk or flavoured milk
- Tablespoon of sugar
- Teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 1 large and 1 small zip lock bag
Directions:
- Pour the flavoured milk into the small zip lock bag
- Place ice and salt into the larger bag
- Put the smaller bag inside the large bag.
- Seal the larger bag
- Shake the bag for 5-10 minutes or until the milk turns into ice-cream
For our experiment, the children voted to use chocolate, strawberry and banana flavoured milk.
They used a wooden hammer to crush the ice and worked together to prepare the ice cream bags.
Taking turns, they shook the bag vigorously for several minutes each or until their hands were too cold.
After 5 minutes of shaking the milk had begun to freeze and a few minutes later the milk was frozen solid.
Everyone was very excited to eat their hand made ice-cream, with the group deciding that the chocolate ice-cream tasted the best, and that making ice-cream was an experiment they would love to do again.
That’s all from Miss Patti and the Sea Turtles (Pingins)
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