Junior inventors: solve this problem so you can eat some delicious ice cream that you made with your own hands! The ice cream scoop wasn’t always around. See how it was invented and try to figure out your own way to scoop the sweet frozen treat.
Alfred Cralle---an African Amercian businessman in the late 1800s---noticed that servers in an ice cream shop had trouble with ice cream sticking to spoons. He invented a one-handed ice cream scoop that is still like the ones we use today. Kids will make ice cream from scratch, then work together to figure out how to make something that scoops the ice cream without sticking---maybe they’ll even scoop Alfred with the next great design!
Kids ages 5 – 12
AGE GROUP: | School Age |
EVENT TYPE: | Science | Making and How-To |
TAGS: | STEM | inventor | Ice Cream | African American History |