This document describes a science experiment to determine how ice cube size affects water level. Students froze water in 1/4 cup, 1/2 cup and 1 cup measurements to use as ice cubes in separate containers with 600mL of water. They recorded the change in water volume after the ice melted. Results showed water level rose more with larger ice cubes, supporting the hypothesis. The document concludes larger ice cubes affect water level more due to having more water mass as ice.

1. LAND AND SEA ICE

2. To find out if different
sized ice cubes affect the
water level.

3. My hypothesis was that I thought
the largest ice cube would
affect the water level the most
because it has the largest mass
of water made into ice.

4. ¼ cup measurement
½ cup measurement
1 cup measurement
4 ice cream containers or
milk bottles
Measuring jug

5.  1.Freeze water in the measured cups.
3.Release the ice from the containers.
2. Place one ice cube in each container.
4. Place 600mL water in each container.
5. Draw a line where the water level is.
6.Wait until ice is melted.
7.When ice is melted pour water back into measuring jug
to see if water level has changed
8. Record results.

6.  INDEPENDENT:
The size of the ice cubes
 DEPENDENT:
Water level and the volume of water
 CONTROL:
The amount of water in the containers.
The amount of water used to make each ice cube.

7. ¼ cup ½ cup 1 cup
MORGAN Water volume Water volume Water volume
rose 60mL rose 250mL rose 350mL
NADITH Water volume Water volume Water volume
rose 60mL rose 120mL rose 140mL
NITHYAN Water volume Water volume Water volume
rose 20mL and rose 15mL and rose 145mL and
decreased 30mL 150mL
25mL
KAI MING Water volume N/A Water volume
rose 10mL rose 175mL

8. ¼ CUP ½ CUP 1 CUP
MEAN: 385mL 703.75mL 792mL
MEDIAN: 620mL 675mL 750mL
MODE: 660mL NONE NONE
RANGE: 85mL 235mL 210mL

9. I LEARNED THAT THE APPEARANCE OF THE
WATER LEVEL DOESN’T CHANGE WHEN AN ICE
CUBE MELTS, BUT THE VOLUME OF WATER
DOES.
MY HYPOTHESIS WAS RIGHT. THE LARGEST ICE
CUBE DID AFFECT THE WATER LEVEL THE
MOST.
NEXT TIME WE SHOULD TRY AND DO OUR
EXPERIMENTS AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE
SAME WEATHER CONDITIONS TO SEE IF OUR
RESULTS BECOME MORE SIMILAR.

10. After doing my science fair I discovered that if
an ice cube melts the appearance of the
water level doesn't change, but the volume
of water does.
In real life, if the Arctic melted the water
level would stay the same and small island
nations wouldn't be flooded under water.