Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Water
Given scenarios, descriptions, or illustrations, the student will determine the properties of water that affect chemical and biological systems.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Tests to Distinguish Between Similar Looking Liquids
Using the properties of liquids, students will identify unknown liquids by seeing how they behave on different paper surfaces. This site includes teacher and student instructions for the lab activity.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Look Alike Liquids
Students will learn to identify four unknown colorless liquids based on their characteristic properties in this activity. The lab activity includes both teacher and student instructions.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Using Color to See How Liquids Combine
An activity where students use the characteristics of liquids when they combine with water to tell the differences between them. Activity includes both student and teacher instructions.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rainbow Challenge Lab
In this inquiry lab activity, students will attempt to layer 6 different kinds of soda pops in a large test tube using their knowledge of density and other physical properties of liquids.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Science: Liquids
Students use their senses to investigate, observe, and collect data for several different liquids.
Science is Fun
Science Is Fun: Layered Liquids
An investigation into what properties liquids have that enable them to sit in separate layers in a container.