American Chemical Society
Color Changes with Acids and Bases
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...
Curated OER
pH Curves and Indicators
Glimpse how pH changes during an acid-base titration by examining graphs. It contains not only graphs of pH changes, but also a chart summarizing what indicator to choose for different changes. This is not truly a worksheet, but an...
Curated OER
Acid-Base Indicators
The first two pages provide a chart to complete with results of a lab test using different solutions and indicators. The data analysis questions will help your students understand the concentrations of the solutions and how they affect...
Curated OER
pH and Red Cabbage Juice
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.
Curated OER
Making A Natural pH Indicator
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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Westminster School: Mixed Indicator Lab
A unique upper level lab showing how to take advantage of the different transition points of two indicators to determine the concentrations of two unknowns at once.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Basically Acidic Ink
Students hypothesize whether vinegar and ammonia-based glass cleaner are acids or bases. They create designs on index cards using these substances as invisible inks. After the index cards have dried, they apply red cabbage juice as an...
University of Nebraska
David Brooks: Henry's Law Experiment
At this site learn about Henry's law through this hands-on experiment. Lab instructions are complete including step-by-step pictures an worksheet.