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LABScI

Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice pH Indicator

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the range of pH using an assortment of household liquids. Scholars create their own pH indicators from cabbage and determine the pH of several liquids. To further their exploration, individuals use the same liquids to create...
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Curated OER

Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders perform tests to identify acids and bases.  In this chemistry lesson, 5th graders identify common household substances as acids or bases using cabbage juice indicator strips.
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Teach Engineering

Red Cabbage Chemistry

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Using the natural pH indicator of red cabbage juice, groups determine the pH of different everyday liquids. As they work, pupils gain an understanding of pH that may help deal with contaminants in the water supply. 
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Curated OER

Investigating the Change

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Sugar crystal growth is observed as an example of physical change and cabbage juice pH indicator is used to demonstrate chemical change. The crystal growth is tracked over five days. The cabbage juice experiment is involved and can also...
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American Chemical Society

Powder Particulars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
By both demonstration and hands-on investigation, physical science fanatics come to know that some materials react when they come together. Adding vinegar to both baking soda and to baking powder, the difference between the two is clear....
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Baylor College

Fuel for Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During a three-part lesson, learners make a cabbage juice pH indicator and use it to analyze the waste products of yeast after feeding them with sugar. The intent is to demonstrate how living organisms produce carbon dioxide, which is...
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American Chemical Society

Color Changes with Acids and Bases

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Getting back to the beginning of the unit, learners use reactions with red cabbage juice to determine if solutions are acidic, neutral, or basic. This is a straightforward and classic investigation, but what you will appreciate is the...
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Curated OER

pH and Red Cabbage Juice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review properties of materials and define what pH tells them about matter.  In this pH levels lesson, students determine whether materials are acids or bases using indicator substances.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cabbage Juice Lab

For Students 6th - 10th
In this acid and base instructional activity, learners use cabbage juice as an indicator to test the pH of various solutions. Students complete a table with the solution name, the color red and blue litmus paper turns, the color the...
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Curated OER

Cool Chemistry- DIY pH Indicator

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the differences between an acid and a base.  In this pH instructional activity students view a demonstration then test chemicals in groups.
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Curated OER

Making A Natural pH Indicator

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students make their own pH indicator from red cabbage. Red cabbage contains a chemical that turns from its natural deep purple color to red in acids and blue in bases. Students boil the cabbage to get the pH indicator.
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Discovery Education

By All Indications

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How do people determine if something is acidic or basic? Learners make their own acid-base indicators using red cabbage and then determine the acidity and alkalinity of different substances. First, they test substances of known pH and...
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Curated OER

Acid (and Base) Rainbows

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the differences between acids and bases and how to use indicators, such as pH paper and red cabbage juice, to distinguish between them. They make predictions that can be answered through scientific...
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Curated OER

Acids, Bases and Indicators

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the pH of various solutions with indicators. In this acids, bases and indicators lesson plan, students use a variety of indicators to test solutions for their pH. Students determine which indicators are the best to...
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Teach Engineering

Basically Acidic Ink

For Teachers 9th - 11th
If you don't want to drink red cabbage juice, here's another use for it—a decoder! Using vinegar and ammonia-based window cleaning liquids as invisible inks, scholars create designs in the second lesson of the series. Red cabbage juice...
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Curated OER

RHS Campaign for School Indicator

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study Ph and how acids and bases can affect it.  In this indicators instructional activity students divide into groups and complete a lab activity to investigate what happens when they add indicators. 
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Curated OER

Indicators For Acids and Bases

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare the color of cabbage water when acids and bases are mixed in. In this acids and bases lesson plan, 4th graders use cabbage water and mix in acids and bases that the teacher prepares before hand. They observe the...
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Herff Jones Education

Acids, Bases, and Indicators—Colorful Chemistry

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Lead the class in a colorful exploration of acids and bases as they learn to differentiate between the two. They identify common items considered acidic and basic, then explore their strengths and weaknesses. They titer solutions and...
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California Academy of Science

Coral and Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Using cabbage juice as a pH indicator, future scientists explore the effect of increasing carbon dioxide on the pH of the ocean and relate it to the health of coral reefs. Ideal for an earth or environmental sciences course, this lesson...
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Curated OER

Cabbage Juice Indicator

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment with household solutions and classify them as a base or acid.  In this exploratory lesson plan students complete a lab where they test products to see if they are an acid or a base. 
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Curated OER

Water Quality and Environmental Pollution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners use litmus paper to begin to discover the qualities of acids and bases. They learn about pH by testing clear liquids for acidity with purple cabbage juice as an indicator. The video Streamkeeper, with Bill Nye, and other video...
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Curated OER

Chemical Magic

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify acids and bases. In this chemistry lesson, students use red cabbage juice as an indicator of whether the liquid is an acid or base. Students discuss the results.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mystery Powder Lab

For Students 6th - 8th
For this mystery powder worksheet, students determine the identify of 6 unknown samples by testing them with cabbage juice for pH, vinegar, iodine for starch and heat. Students determine the identity of the mystery powders using their...
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Curated OER

HOW IS PH DETERMINED?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils estimate the pH based on the use of an unknown substance, determine whether an unknown substance is acid, base or neutral, and evaluate, by the pH determination, which of the unknowns is the strongest acid or base.