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Science curriculum for K—5th grades.

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Check out these giant blocks of ice. Use your imagination. What could you build with hundreds or thousands of them?
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This is the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in China. Everything is made of ice and lit up by colored lights.
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What do you think these colorful objects are? How do you think that people made them?
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Someone filled water balloons with colored water and then left them outside to freeze! Try this out sometime!
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Someone went to open their front door one day and this is what it looked like. What do you think happened?
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The wind had blown enough snow to trap this man in his house! He had to use a shovel to get out.
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If you go outside on a very cold day, your hair won't freeze like this. How did these people get their hair to freeze?
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First, they had to get their hair wet! They did this for fun when it was colder than 0°F (-18°C). (Don’t try this!)
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It even works on eyelashes!
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This fragile, frozen sphere is hollow inside–it’s full of air. How do you think someone made it?
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Someone blew a bubble with a straw! Watch as beautiful ice crystals form as the bubble freezes.
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