Making Ice Cream

We have been doing an experiment each Friday during our Solids and Liquids unit and today we made vanilla ice cream! We read a "how-to" explaining the steps we would need to follow, predicted how our liquid mixture would change to a solid during the freezing process, then worked together to follow the procedural steps to create our liquid mixture and turn it into ice cream! During our process we were able to connect to our current math learning about fractions as we had to use different sized measuring spoons and measuring cups to create our liquid mixture. On Monday we will review our process and write procedures to record today's process.

Our basic procedure for making ice cream was for partners to combine ingredients in a quart sized ziploc bag, zip and tape it shut, then put it inside of a gallon sized ziploc bag filled with ice and rock salt. Student partners then put on gloves and took turns shaking their bag for 10 minutes until the liquid mixture had turned into ice cream! Students then removed the ice cream bag from the large bag, rinsed it off, and scooped the ice cream out into cups. This was lots of fun though it required a lot of "teacher time" so the photos below only reflect two of the steps in our process! The procedure we followed went home with students today if you would like to attempt this at home!

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