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Middle School Chemistry: Why Does Water Dissolve Sugar?
Explore this animation to learn why water dissolves sugar.
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Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Why Does Water Dissolve Sugar?
Lesson plan in which students design an experiment to determine if different types of liquids affect the amount of dissolution of an M&M candy shell.
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Uen: Dissolving Sugar Class Science Fair Project
Second graders work together as a class to generate a science fair project.
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Inquiry in Action: Dissolving a Substance in Different Liquids
This activity investigates the question of whether colored sugar dissolves at the same rate in water, vegetable oil, and alcohol. This lesson includes teacher information and student activity sheet.
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Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Using Dissolving to Identify an Unknown
Students first observe a solubility test between salt and sugar. Next, they design their own solubility test with four known crystals and an unknown to discover the identity of the unknown.
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Science Buddies: What's the Point of Boiling?
You know that water can exist in three separate phases: solid (ice), liquid (water), and vapor (steam). To change from one phase to another, you simply add (or remove) heat. When water boils, what happens to molecules (for example sugar...