We are MELTING! Itâs certainly feels like that anyway! Yesterday the steps outside our front door registered 47C at 10am. No way was it possible to sit out there! Today itâs was a âcoolâ 36C at the same time. But since we canât do anything about the heat, we may as well put it to good use and high temps. are a great resource when it comes to setting up an investigation to demonstrate âmeltingâ. Grab a baking tray or lots of little cake cases and involve He kids in setting up an investigation to find out the melting point of different materials. This activity can be adapted for all ages from toddlers to teens. Itâs up to you how advanced you make it. For tinies itâs sufficient for them to put the tray of goodies out in the sun for 10/15 minutes and then look to see what the changes are. Which substances have completely melted? Which have started to melt? For older children you can talk about how everything has its own melting point and so those items which havenât melted at say 35C may well do at 60 or 100 C. Older children can use the BBC science website and Bitesize Science to gain further information. For ALL ages it is important BEFORE setting up the investigation, to get the kids to PREDICT. To say what they think will happen, which substances will melt first, second etc. Older kids can make a chart showing their predictions and then the actual results. In the tray shown we have a selection of quick melts (those that have a low melting point) like chocolate and butter. Then slightly slower melts like sweets and cheese and plastic and a candle and plasticine plus items which (we hope) will never melt in our climate like metal coins and pieces of pottery or brick. The photo? I used the app PHONTO to melt together to sunset snaps I took the other evening. #phonto #phontograph #photoapps #scienceforkids #sciencefortoddlers #toddlefun #primaryscience #sciencemum #melting #summerfun #hot #heatwave #instagood #simple#photooftheday #instacoolpicture #swag #instasummer #summerfun #photoapps #itshot