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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 which has learners 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 their favorite...
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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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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
Students 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
Students examine the effects of salt on ice. In 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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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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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...
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Ice Cream Science

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review properties of matter and discuss how materials change when things are done to them. They observe how materials change as a reaction to temperature by following the procedure to make ice cream and recording the temperature...
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Ice Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how salt affects the state of ice. In this ice cream making instructional activity, students change the freezing temperature by adding salt and observing the results. Students use experimentation and comparison to...
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Recycled Paper Making

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the life of a recycled newspaper by experimenting in class.  In this recycling activity, 2nd graders create their own recycled paper pulp by mixing an old newspaper into a bucket and adding water....
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Popcorn Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars read a snack nutrition chart and answer questions. They compare nutrition levels of snack foods. They correctly calculate differences in nutritional value.
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The Frigid Gourmet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers make a " science surprise" or ice cream in the lab. In this melting point depression lesson plan, students use various substances with ice to determine the effects on the melting point of ice and the ability to make ice...
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State Change

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the physical change of matter. As a class, they discuss their favorite super hero and determine if the hero undergoes a physical or chemical change. Students examine the change of state and phase change. In groups,...
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I Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students determine that correspondences appear differently in different words. They discover the difference between long and short vowels and that these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently. They review the i=/i/ and ...
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We All Scream for Ice Cream!

For Teachers K
Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the long /e/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words that contain the ee and ea correspondence. Students then read the book "Tea For Three" with a...
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Food Choices: A Socio-Cultural Decision

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners discuss their food preferences. Using a flannel board and food models students describe what they would like to eat for dinner. Learners compare their selections with their classmates. Students identify the nationality of ethnic...
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Help! I'm Trapped in a Vampire Body Multiple Choice Quiz

For Teachers 5th
In this literature based multiple choice worksheet, 5th graders answer 10 questions based on the book, Help! I'm Trapped in a Vampire's Body by Todd Strasser.
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Double Dipping

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine how many double scoop combinations they can make using 5 different ice cream flavors. Then they use Microsoft Publisher to create a brochure for their ice cream shop.
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Redesigning a Time Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review how Ben and Jerry's ice cream is made to begin the lesson. Using the internet, they view a timeline on the history of the company. They use a software program to make an ice cream cone and color the ice cream as they...
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Firefighters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.