Heating and Cooling | Hero Elementary

In these Hero Elementary activities, children explore how materials change when heated and cooled. For example, if you cool a liquid, it may become solid. What happens when you reverse the process and heat the solid—does it become liquid again? Or, if you heat a solid, it may become liquid. If you cool the liquid, will it get solid again? Children will discover that some changes are reversible and others are not. You can heat ice and it becomes liquid water. If you cool the water, it freezes and becomes ice again. If you heat popcorn, it pops and it does not “unpop” if you cool it. There is no way to unpop popcorn.