Freezing Stuff
pamelamyers | January 21, 2019
The weather has been absolutely hideous. Cold and dark and just awful. We are all stuck in the house. Sam and I were up early (as usual) and she was off for MLK day. I was watching the news and they kept going back to a guy who spends a lot of time apparently, freezing random stuff when it’s cold outside just to see how long it takes for things to freeze and what happens to it. Sam decided this was a fabulous idea, and hey, why not? What else are we going to do on a day with a high of 19 and a low of 10? All in the name of science! And keeping Sam from being bored. Let’s not forget that.
Our first project was soaking a towel and then laying it outside. Man that thing froze fast!
We also cracked an egg…
Some liquid soap…
And a wet string.
Sam tried an experiment she heard about where you put salt on an ice cube and then you can pick it up with a piece of string. It works!
Later we froze hand sanitizer…
String cheese…
And more string!
Sam kept a chart of everything she froze, how long it took, how much it froze, and whether it could be reused once it thawed. Not a bad educational lesson for a cold morning!