Among the books Dawn chose from the library last week was the book Solids, Liquids, and Gases
It’s a nice little book which, in simple terms, explains the difference between solid, liquid, and gaseous matter. I wanted her to gain a better understanding of what the book was talking about, so I decided to illustrate the matter in the kitchen.
Waiting to see what happens to the ice...
First going over safety rules of being near a stove, I took the ice I had in the freezer (and probably long-freezer burned by now) and we emptied it into a pot. I turned on the burner so that the girls could watch what happened.
I showed Dawn how the ice was hard (solid) and how, with heat, it was starting to melt (transforming into a liquid). Ice, turned into water when the temperature rose.
After that, the ice disappeared and started to get hot. Vapour rose and I showed Dawn that this was steam (not smoke) and steam was the water turning to gas.
This was a very simple lesson, but a great one to illustrate what happens to things under different temperatures. I don’t expect her to give a lengthy explanation of the process, but now she knows that ice, water and steam are the same thing in different forms.l
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