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Milk, Sugar, Science: Engineering Ice Cream

Students explore the journey of milk from cow to ice cream, make ice cream in a bag, and discover how food engineers have developed many different processes for making ice cream.

Grades
K – 2
Estimated Time
1 hour
Updated
July 19, 2023

Background

Lesson Activities

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Science
    • K-2-ETS1: Engineering Design
      • K-2-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
      • K-2-ETS1-1: Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.