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Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt... ActivityConcentrate This! Sugar or Salt... Activity
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9th - 12th
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Science
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4 days
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Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt...

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Heat up your lessons on boiling points. The resource provides a three-part activity: first, groups find the boiling point of solutions; second, they create boiling point curves for salt and sugar solutions; and third, they mix a solution with a specific boiling point using the boiling point curves.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

concentration, boiling points, mixtures, technology resources

Instructional Ideas

  • Team up with a chemistry teacher

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners should be able to interpret graphs and work with fractions
  • Requires a variety of materials, including sugar and salt

Pros

  • Provides some troubleshooting tips for the experiment
  • Includes a list of vocabulary terms with definitions and links to external sites

Cons

  • None

Common Core

HSN-Q.A.1 HSA-SSE.A.1.a HSA-CED.A.4 HSA-REI.B.3 HSF-LE.A.1.a HSF-LE.A.2 HSF-LE.A.3 HSF-LE.A.4 HSS-ID.B.6.a

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