Name: ______
Hr___
Glacial Ice Cream Lab
Materials for each group:
1 tray
1 cup/bag each of vanilla wafers, chocolate chips, and crushed Fruitloops, sprinkles
1 slab of ice cream.
**Before starting the lab you MUST wash your hands with soap, and clear off your desk except for your NB & pencil!**
1. Mark one end of the tray “north” and the other “south” with a post-it note.
Write your names and hour on the NORTH post-it.
2. Pour some of the chocolate chips, Vanilla Wafers, and crushed cereal in separate layers/rows next to each other on the cookie sheet—near (a few inches from) the NORTH edge.
Save some back in each of the cups/bags for later instructions.
3. Put the wide edge of your ice cream on the north edge of the sheet on top of the stuff that is spread there. Sprinkle the rest of the materials (Vanilla Wafers, chocolate chips, sprinkles, and cereal) ON TOP of your slab of ice cream, especially on the narrow end. Be sure to follow directions!
4. Stack a few books/folders under the NORTH end of the tray to about a 30 degree angle.
Note what happens to the materials as the ice cream starts to melt.
**Keeping in mind that the ice cream represents a glacier and the Vanilla Wafers, chocolate chips, sprinkles, and cereal represent rock and soil materials, look for the following answers as the lab progresses!
5. Number AND Answer the following questions in your notebook—organized nicely, please:
#1) In your notebook, sketch in detail the results you see on your tray after the ice cream melts back from the south end of your tray. Label the landforms that you think would result after the ice cream was gone. (Are they hills, rivers, lakes, plains, etc.?)…have your teacher take a picture of your glacier.
#2) Explain where & how your “glacier” is using constructive and destructive processes.
#3) Some solid materials will flow along with any ice cream rivers that form. What would happen to this solid material carried in the rivers if the flow of the ice cream were to slow down and eventually dry up? Explain what process this would be.
#4) What landforms resulted from your glacier’s activity? (You may need to think of this on a larger scale! What if it was huge? What would you see as far as landforms?)
6. Get checked out by your teacher (sketch and questions done) and cleared to eat your lab
7. Rinse, dry, and return trays. Clean your desk(s). Clean and dry the area around the sink you used.