Let's Have Some Fun!

Making Ice Cream

Introduction
 

Here's a riddle for you.

What's cold, smooth, creamy, comes in lots of flavors, melts all over your clothes, and cools you off on a hot, hot, hot, summer day?

Can you guess what it is?

Of course it's Ice Cream!

Task

Let's have some fun and make some ice cream to share with your friends.
Pair up with a classmate who likes the same kind of ice cream as you.  You and your classmate will work together to make your very own ice cream.  After eating and enjoying your ice cream, you and your partner will go to  a website the teacher has made available for you.  You and your classmate will be making a "Virtual Ice Cream Cone"

Process

You will need :

    ice,  rock salt, milk, heavy cream, clear vanilla extract, cocoa, small and
    large freezer bags, measuring cups and spoons, newspaper, cups, and
    plastic spoons

Take your large freezer bag and fill it half full of ice.
Add 1/3 of a cup of rock salt to the ice.  Seal the bag and mix.
Take your small freezer bag and put the following ingredients in:

                                        1/2 cup of milk
                                        1/2 cup of heavy cream
                                        2 tablespoons of sugar

Please make sure your ingredients bag is closed tightly.
Put the ingredients bag inside the ice and salt bag and close it tightly.
Take turns shaking the bag.  You will need to shake it for about 15 minutes.
When you ice cream is ready take it out and serve it in your cups.

Have fun and enjoy your ice cream.
Go to website "Virtual Ice Cream Cone" complete activity and e-mail your teacher with your results.

Resources

Virtual Ice Cream Cone
Teacher's e-mail
Fun Brain

Evaluation

Journal Writing
Virtual Ice Ceram Cone visit
Performanced Based Activity
Rubric on Ice Cream Procedures
 
 


Ice Cream Procedures



                                               1               2                3                4
 
Work together
Neat Area
Measured ingridents correctly
Finish product taste test

Please check the correct box  for you and your parnter's performance.


Conclusion

Delicious ice cream was made.  We changed a liquid to a solid by changing the temperature.  The freezing point is the special temperature at which one kind of matter changes from its liquid to its solid state.