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title: "Year 4 Investigating Melting"
url: "https://st-bridgets-pri.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/2025-12-05-01-01-year-4-investigating-melting"
school: "St Bridget's Catholic Primary School"
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# Year 4 Investigating Melting

  ![Image of Year 4 Investigating Melting](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/blog/IMG_3514.jpeg)  5 December 2025   [Miss Conlin](https://st-bridgets-pri.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/author/hconlin)   [Year 4](https://st-bridgets-pri.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/category/year-4)

This week in Year 4, our scientists had a fantastic time exploring one of the key changes of state: melting. To make the learning hands-on and meaningful, we carried out a simple but exciting experiment using something very familiar… butter!

The aim of the lesson was to help children understand that melting happens when a solid is heated enough to turn into a liquid. To see this in action, pupils investigated the melting point of butter — the temperature at which it changes from solid to liquid.

### Year 4 Science Investigation: Melting

  [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3510.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3510.jpeg)

  [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3513.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3513.jpeg)

  [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3514.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3514.jpeg)

  [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3516.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/gallery/year-4-science-investigation-melting/IMG_3516.jpeg)

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