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National Dairy Month

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students make ice cream, make lists of dairy products, discuss cows, and more to celebrate National Dairy Month. In this dairy lesson plan, students also sing songs about dairy.
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Ice Cream Toppings

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses. In this senses lesson, students use their senses to top their ice cream. Students compare and contrast the different toppings and write their observations, using descriptive words, in a notebook.
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Ice Cream Chemical and Physical Changes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify characteristics of a simple physical and chemical change. They describe objects by the properties of the materials from which they are made and that these properties can be used separate. Students describe the...
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Chillin' Out with Freezing Point Depression

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners examine the freezing point depression of salt water by making ice cream. Lab activity begins with students layering a bowl with ice and salt around an empty cup before adding a mystery solution to the cup. They take the...
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Ice Cream Pictograph

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a graph. In this pictograph lesson plan, students cut out 20 small ice cream cones and decorate them. Students create a pictograph with their ice cream cones.
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Rita's Ice Cream

For Students 10th - 11th
In this algebra learning exercise, students calculate how many different choices they can create making a dessert. The have a choice of 26 different flavors of ice and 5 different flavors of ice cream. There is a solution to this problem.
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The Ice Cream Stands Problem

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders pretend to set up an ice cream shop in a make believe town of shapes.  In this geometry lesson plan, 10th graders work together to put up an ice cream stand in an ideal location and solve for the minimum given the shapes.    
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Ice Cream Lesson Plan for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students explore how ice cream is made in a factory and at home. They help make ice cream in the classroom. They measure out the ingredients. Students share the ice cream when it is done.
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The Chemistry of Ice Cream

For Students 5th - 8th
In this chemistry of ice cream activity, students investigate colligative properties and how they affect freezing points while making ice cream. Students answer short answer questions to determine if freezing is an endothermic or...
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What's The Scoop?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the properties of matter.  In this cross curriculum three states of matter science lesson, students listen to the poem "Eighteen Flavors" by Shel Silverstein, and predict what will happen if listed ingredients are...
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Shared and Guided Reading with Ice Cream Money

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a lesson plan which has young scholars locate an exclamation point and a comma from the text. They locate previously learned words on the page, and create a word map from the word "Money." Students write about and illustrate...
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Make A Comet

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students make a comet out of corn syrup, ammonia, dirt, ice cream sticks, and more. In this comet lesson plan, students view how these ingredients turn from a solid to a gas.
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Solar Matters II- Ice Cube Race

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss the methods of energy transfer. In this energy transfer lesson, students use ice to demonstrate what happens when energy is transferred. Students complete a Science Journal page as an assessment.
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Ice Cream Treat Math

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this counting money worksheet, students read 2 scenarios and respond to 4 questions pertaining to counting money and making change.
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Chilly Discoveries

For Teachers 1st
First graders make ice cream and determine what makes this liquid turn into a solid.
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Changes In Matter, "The Big Chill"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate why ice cream does not go through any chemical changes when it is exposed to physical changes. They describe the three states of matter in either written or verbal form. Then students experiment with ice cream...
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TIN CAN TREAT

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students conduct an experiment where they will change a liquid dairy product into a solid. They review the definitions of liquids and solids. Students are given an example of each. They are divided into groups of four, each group is...
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We All Scream for Ice Cream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils make ice cream while experimenting with the freezing point of water. They experiment with different amounts of salt.
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Amazing Salt

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners examine the effects of salt on ice. For this salt lesson, students observe what happens to the temperature of ice when salt is added, then make ice cream to see how this knowledge can be used.
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Ice Cream Scoop

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this data display worksheet, students write 6 flavors of ice cream on pieces of paper. Students choose papers one at a time and keep track on a tally sheet. Students make a bar graph of the results.
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I Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students perform an experiment. In this combinations lesson, students complete an experiment where they find out how many ice cream cone combinations they can make with 5 different flavors of ice cream and 4 types of cones. They design a...
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Screaming for Ice Cream

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Mathematicians investigate maximizing volume by learning to explore the problem in which they seek to maximize the volume of a cone.  Learners solve the problem symbolically, graphically, and through the use of integration or...
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Triangles and Ovals- Ice Cream Cones

For Students K - 1st
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students look for ovals and triangles in a picture of three multi-scoop ice cream cones. Students follow the directions to color each shape they find.
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I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Use letter boxes and example words to help kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They...