Make Teaching Matter Sweeter With Teach Starter!

Get ready to transform your upper-years classroom into an ice cream production facility, where learning about matter and changes in state comes to life! We’re excited about this hands-on science experiment, which will allow your students to engage directly with scientific concepts and make their own tasty vanilla ice cream treats!

Ice Cream in a Bag Recipe & Science Experiment for Upper Years

Through this exciting experiment, students will learn how removing heat from the liquid mixture causes it to change from a liquid to a solid state, illustrating the concepts of freezing and temperature change. With a few simple materials, some time, and a whole lot of shaking, your students can observe a ‘sweet’ change in state as their ice cream goes from liquid to solid!

This activity requires students to follow a multi-step process to identify variables and controls, create a testing setup, and use the materials given to make and observe how removing heat causes a liquid ice cream mixture to solidify. We have included the following in your resource download:

• Ice Cream in a Bag Recipe
• Materials List
• Step-by-Step Instructions
• Student Planning and Observation Guide
• Critical Thinking and Analysis Questions (written response)

We recommend completing this activity outside, just in case your students shake their bags a little too hard and a leak happens! Have fun learning, eating, and churning up new science lessons with Teach Starter!

Download and Print!

This resource downloads as an editable Google Slides resource or a quick-print PDF. Click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select the file you prefer. Print, assemble, and start making ice cream in a bag!

This resource was created by Brittany Collins, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator.

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