# Up and Atom: Ice Experiments – Fern Hill Branch

> Event for families in the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue area (WA). Times are Pacific Time.

- When: Tue, Dec 8 · 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Where: Tacoma Public Library – Fern Hill Branch, 765 South 84th Street, Tacoma, WA 98444
- Ages: Grades K-5, Grades 6-8
- Price: Check official pricing
- Organizer: Tacoma Public Library
- Official page: https://tacoma.bibliocommons.com/events/6ad3cb0b901b02002cc32d62
- Last checked: Sat, Oct 24

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## About

Part of Tacoma Public Library's Up and Atom STEAM Days, where each week brings a different hands-on science, technology, engineering, art or math activity for school-age kids. This Tuesday-afternoon session at the Fern Hill Branch explores the physics and chemistry of freezing, melting and phase changes through ice-based investigations: young scientists test how salt, temperature and pressure change how fast ice melts and how strong it stays. The library lists it for Grades K-5 and Grades 6-8. Drop-in; no registration is shown.

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