--- title: Exploring Heat and Water in Kindergarten Science | KnowAtom description: Explore hands-on lessons for kindergarten students about the effects of heat on water, engaging them in experiments and scientific dialogue to understand solids, liquids, and gases. --- More Lessons for Your State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Other NGSS # Heat and Water In kindergarten, students begin to develop the practices that scientists and engineers use to help them answer questions and solve problems. This page is a high level extract from lesson 3, where students carry out an experiment to determine how heat affects water in a solid form (ice). 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It seeks to answer the deeper “how” and “why” questions that teachers may have about the concepts being investigated. The uneven heating of Earth is responsible for the cycling of water between solid, liquid, and gas. Water on Earth is constantly changing between these three states depending on the temperature. Students will explore the difference between solid ice and liquid water, and observe how water can change between the two states when heat is added or removed.Solids are kinds of matter that hold their own shape until something changes them by force. Snow and ice keep their own shape because like all solids, they have the least amount of heat of any state of matter. When enough heat is added to snow or ice, it will melt, turning into liquid water. Liquids are matter that take the shape of their container but have no shape of their own. The particles that make up liquids have enough energy to slide past one another. This is why liquids flow. #### Supports Grade k ![Sneak Peek Seal with Arrow](https://www.knowatom.com/hubfs/Sneak%20Peek%20Seal%20with%20Arrow.svg) ## Science Lesson: Investigating Heat and Water In this brief lesson students begin to explore the differences between solids, liquids, and gasses as they conduct an experiment to see what happens to ice when it is heated. They will engage in Socratic dialogue and a picture thinking routine to observe water in its various forms. In the experiment, students predict what will happen to a block of ice placed in the sun and what will happen to ice that stays in a colder environment. The goal of this lesson is for students to begin acting like scientists by making predictions and conducting experiments to test their predictions. They will carry this understanding forward as they engage with phenomena hands-on as scientists and engineers in future lessons. [Download a Sample Unit ](https://www.knowatom.com/stem-curriculum#state) ## Science Big Ideas - Where have you seen liquid water? How do you know that the water in these places is liquid? - How is solid water different from liquid water? - Where have you seen solid water? - What do all solids have in common? - What has to happen to turn liquid water into solid water (ice)? - Why does snow start to melt in the spring? ![sample unit-k8 science curriculum-knowatom](https://www.knowatom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Sample%20Unit%20CTA-2.png?width=327&height=264&name=Sample%20Unit%20CTA-2.png) ###### Discover Complete Hands-on Screens-off Core Science Curriculum for K-8 Classrooms Prepared hands-on materials, full year grade-specific curriculum, and personalized live professional development designed to support mastery of current state science standards. [Click Here to Learn More](https://www.knowatom.com/talk-to-knowatom-sales) ## Science Essential Questions - Where have you seen liquid water? How do you know that the water in these places is liquid? - How is solid water different from liquid water? - Where have you seen solid water? - What do all solids have in common? - What has to happen to turn liquid water into solid water (ice)? - Why does snow start to melt in the spring? ## Common Science Misconceptions ![close-circle-red](https://www.knowatom.com/hubfs/Icon%20ionic-ios-close-circle-red-1.svg) **Misconception:** Snow and ice make it cold. ![checkmark-circle-green](https://www.knowatom.com/hubfs/Icon%20ionic-ios-checkmark-circle-green.svg) **Fact:** Snow and ice form when temperatures are low enough. In other words, cold weather causes snow and ice to form, not the other way around. ## Science Vocabulary **Liquid :** matter that takes the shape of its container but has no shape of its own **Melt :** to turn from a solid to a liquid **Solid :** matter that holds its own shape until something changes it by force ## Lexile(R) Certified Non-Fiction Science Reading (Excerpt) ![image2](https://www.knowatom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Grade/image2.png?width=262&height=340&name=image2.png) ![image3](https://www.knowatom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Grade/image3.png?width=264&height=340&name=image3.png) ## Hands-on Science Activity This mini-lesson is a hands-on exploration of solid water (ice) and liquid water. Students will first tap into their prior understanding of ice and water in the world as they engage in a discussion to compare and contrast solids and liquids. Students are encouraged to ask curious questions to better understand another student’s connection in a process that helps the student reflect while sparking new ideas and connections for the entire class. Following the discussion, students plan and conduct an experiment using Scientific Process to test their predictions about what will happen to a shape of solid ice when heat is applied. [ Learn More About KnowAtom ](https://www.knowatom.com/stem-curriculum) ## Science Assessments KnowAtom incorporates formative and summative assessments designed to make students thinking visible for deeper student-centered learning. - Vocabulary Check - Lab Checkpoints - Concept Check Assessment  - Concept Map Assessment  - And More... 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