Melting

Moments
Jordyn, Tanya & Madeline
Design Brief
Attention year 3’s!

We are having an ice cream stall at the end of Term 3 to raise

money for school. The school does not have enough freezers to fit
all of the ice creams. Your task is to work collaboratively in small
groups to design and produce an esky that will keep the ice cream
from melting in the hot sun!

Requirements:
 You must design one esky per person in your group.
 You can only use recycled materials for your esky.
 You can only use up to 5 different materials.

Task:
1. Design and label an esky that you would like to create.
2. As a group choose which design you think would work the
best (make adjustments if needed).
3. Collect required equipment/resources.
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4. Start constructing!

EXPLORE Lesson
Year Group:
Year Three Information
Strand: Chemical
Curriculum Link:
Science
A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding
Topic: Melting
or removing heat (ACSSU046).
Moments
STEM Links:
· Conduct chance experiments, identify and describe possible

outcomes and recognise variation in results (ACMSP067)

Mathematics.

· Forces, and the properties of materials, affect the

Resources
· Design Brief behaviour of objects (ACTDEK011) Design and Technologies.

· Team Roles · Develop and communicate ideas using labelled drawings and

· Ice Blocks appropriate technical terms (WATPPS17) Design and

· Icy Poles Technologies.

· Aluminum Foil Overview

· Salt In this lesson students will be introduced to changing states of

· Recycled matter. Students will engage in an explorative lesson that

Cardboard introduces and requires them to examine the change from a solid

· Recycled to a liquid. Through the use of game and play students will initially

Plastics explore how adding heat will change the solid from a liquid.

· Recycled Students will then use key terminology such as melting, heating and

Styrofoam cooling to describe changes. Students will work collaboratively and

· Glue execute a range of approaches to solve the task outlined on the

· Tape design brief. Students will be working with a STEM mindset and

· Scissors framework. In order to solve the task, they will be required to

work both scientifically and mathematically adopting an array of

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technologies to engineer a sustainably made esky! To conclude the

lesson, students will engage in a reflection.