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The Solubility of a Salt in Water at Various Temperatures
An educational instructional activity allows young chemists to test the solubility of different types of salt at various temperatures. Groups create a graph using data from unsaturated, saturated, and supersaturated solutions.
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Freezing Point Depression: Why Don’t Oceans Freeze?
Can you go ice fishing in the ocean? Learners examine the freezing point of different saltwater solutions. Each solution has a different concentration of salt. By comparing the freezing points graphically, they make conclusions about...
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Solution Shapes
In this solutions worksheet, learners soak a pipe cleaner in hot water and a supersaturated solution of 20 Mule Team Borax. Students leave their pipe cleaner in the solution for 30 minutes and then observe. They put it back in over night...
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Marvelous Mixtures
Fifth graders design an experiment in which they separate mixtures. In this mixtures lesson, 5th graders define mixtures, solutions, solutes, and solvents. They watch a video, complete worksheets, and perform an experiment to separate...
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What is a Solution?
In this solutions worksheet, students will review 9 vocabulary words associated with solutions including mixtures, elements, compounds, and dissolving. Students will complete a word puzzle in this worksheet.
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Solutions
In this solutions activity, students answer 18 questions about solutions, saturation of solutions, solvents and solubility.
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The Determination of the Presence of Reducing Sugars Using Fehling's Solution
Students investigate different fruits and vegetables for the presence of sugars. In this sugars and Fehling's solution activity, students test the juice from an onion and a lemon for the presence of sugar by adding Fehling's solution and...
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Solutions Test Review
In this solutions learning exercise, students review the most commonly used solvent, give examples of an emulsifying agents and alloys, and use solubility curves to answer questions. This learning exercise has 11 fill in the blank, 6...
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What Are Solutions And Mixtures?
In this solutions and mixtures worksheet, students will complete a Venn diagram by writing in facts about solutions, facts about mixtures, and facts that both share.
Virginia Department of Education
Laboratory Safety and Skills
Avoiding lab safety rules will not give you super powers. The lesson opens with a demonstration of not following safety rules. Then, young chemists practice their lab safety while finding the mass of each item in a mixture and trying to...
Virginia Department of Education
Equilibrium and Le Chatelier’s Principle
The best part of learning about equilibrium is that nothing changes. Young chemists observe four demonstrations during this lesson: equilibrium in a saturated solution, equilibrium with an acid-base indicator, equilibrium with cobalt...
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Solutions
In this solutions learning exercise, students read about solutions, solutes, and solvents. Students compare solutions with mixtures that are not solutions. Then students complete 10 fill in the blank, 12 matching questions, and 10 terms...
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Solutions
In this solutions worksheet, students read about the characteristics that define a solution such as the solvent and the solute and the homogeneous mixture. They are given a chart with the differences between solution, colloids and...
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How Strong is the Solution
Students investigate the strength of solutions. For this scientific inquiry lesson plan, students examine various solutions of food color and water as they discover the concentration of the solutions by adding bleach to clear the color.
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Simulating Mixture Problems with Colored Beads
Students practice creating mixtures out of colored beads.
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Rate of Solution Lab
In this rate of solution worksheet, high schoolers determine how quickly a solute dissolves in a solvent by testing one independent variable such as temperature, particle size or the amount of stirring. Students design their experiments...
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The Nature of Solutions
In this solutions worksheet, high schoolers compare different types of solutions and distinguish between the solvent and solute in a solution. This worksheet has 7 matching and 10 short answer questions.
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Solutions
In this solutions worksheet, students calculate the pH of given solutions. Students determine the equation used to determine pH and the estimated pH for mixtures. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank and 15 problems to solve.
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Mixing in the Kitchen
Students identify the different types of mixtures. They identify examples of solutions, suspensions, colloidal dispersions, and emulsions through a game and basic experiments.
Normal Community High School
Classification of Matter
Steel is an example of homogeneous mixture, also called an alloy, which is made of iron and carbon. The presentation introduces learners to elements, compounds, and mixtures. They explore their similarities and differences, and then take...
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Matter
In a neat and straightforward manner, this PowerPoint delivers basic introductory information on the properties of matter, physical and chemical changes, and pure substances vs. mixtures. It also defines the states of matter. For some...
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Solutions and Suspensions
Students explore matter by conducting an in class demonstration. For this liquid mixture lesson, students identify the difference between a solution in which a solid dissolves into liquid, and a suspension where the solid doesn't...
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All Mixed Up!
What happens when solids are added to liquids? After reading an informative paragraph about solutions, learners answer six true/false questions regarding solutions, and what substances will dissolve into liquids they are mixed with. A...
Herff Jones Education
Acids, Bases, and Indicators—Colorful Chemistry
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...