Understanding the World

Ideas and Suggestions:

• • Melting and Freezing – make some ice cubes and salt half of them. Which melt first?
  • If it snows, bring some indoors and guess what will happen to it?
  • Freeze water in balloons or rubber gloves
  • Freeze small objects in a bowl of water – lego/small world animal etc
  • Do an experiment to see whether everything freezes – try plasticine, ketchup, jam
  • Use ice and small world arctic animals to make an arctic scene in the water tray
  • Make ice lollies
  • Use a globe to talk about the North and South Poles
  • Look at books about the Inuit people
  • Why are polar bears white?
  • Make seed cakes for the birds
  • Go on a frosty walk