In the morning we were given a challenge, make a home for an ice cube to help keep it from melting. We were presented with items like, a carboard box, tin foil, paper plates, plastic containers, and more. We spent time designing and thinking what might help keep our ice cube cold. Once all of our homes were built we were given an ice cube. At the end of the day we will check to see if any were still frozen. We also voted to see who’s home we thought we work the best and explained why. 

Today we switched things up with going to the Brook first. While we were there exploring the area, many of us noticed that some of the rocks break easily and some don’t, but they help break other rocks. We collected a bunch of rocks and tested out which ones broke easily, which ones took another rock to break, and which didn’t break at all. 

In the afternoon we ventured to a very muddy Beaver Pond. We started to notice that more critters were starting to come back. There were more newts than last week, and there were some water bugs too! 

Before we left we checked on our ice cubes, all of which were melted. We discussed why we think they melted, and how we could change this experiment, like everyone only being able to use the same materials, checking on the ice cubes every hour, testing materials to see if that has influence. Might have to try one of these out next year!