Summary
A full Ready Jet Go! episode on PBS LearningMedia. To build Mindy an ice rink, the gang travels to Saturn for ice and learns how water can be solid, liquid, or gas. A playful introduction to the forms water takes.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Building an ice rink turns into a lesson about ice, water, and where water comes from.
- What are the three forms water can take?
- How is ice different from liquid water?
- Where did the gang go to find ice?
- What makes water freeze into ice?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: ice, water, solid, liquid, freeze.
Try it: Draw water as ice, as a liquid, and as steam. Label each one.