Brief Description
Freezing is when a liquid turns into a solid when the temperature is low enough or cold enough.
How to Talk About This Term with Young Children
For States of Matter: Encourage children to notice how something like water changes after being frozen. What’s similar? What’s different? What do they think will happen with the ice warms up? Why?
For Weather: When the temperature is so cold water freezes into ice. “The temperature is so cold, the pond has turned to ice! It’s freezing.”