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Soar to Salt Lake City

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils improve their cardio-respiratory fitness and to learn about our country. They move (skip, jog, walk, slide, gallop, etc.) for 2 minutes (approximately .2 mile). Fourth graders calculate our weekly mileage and are responsible for...
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Ice Energy

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore how chemicals change water. In this chemical change lesson, students participate in an experiment to observe how salt effects ice and how ice cream freezes.
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Sedimentary Rocks

For Students 7th - 8th
In this sedimentary rocks instructional activity, students conduct an experiment where they observe a shallow dish of water and table salt. Then they determine what causes the salt to leave deposits in the pan. Students also describe...
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Slippery, Slippery Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate how salt affects ice by experimenting in class.  In this water properties instructional activity, students utilize a penny, salt and pans of ice to examine the sliding ability of a penny across a layer of ice....
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Temperature Effects on Solubility

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students determine the solubility of salt in water at three different temperatures and graph the results. They use the following skills: observing, inferring, and graphing.
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A Funny Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners participate in a demonstration that illustrates the relative amounts of salt in various bodies of water including the Dead Sea, Sallt Lake, Ocean water and distilled water. They taste and compare various mixtures.
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Homemade Ice Cream

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate nutrition by creating ice cream in class. In this cooking instructional activity, students define the ingredients in ice cream and discuss how they form together to create a delicious treat. Students utilize salt,...
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The Three E's - Exciting Energetic Electrons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners perform flame tests on salts and record the electron configurations for various cations. They analyze and record the results using spectroscopes.
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Contaminated Drinking Water

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students see if they can tell if our water is safe to drink by looking at it and tasting it. They perform an experiment using salt and vinegar to see when they can tell water has been contaminated.
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The Weight of Water

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine how salt water is more dense than fresh water. They discuss how manatees need to float and sink, conduct a sink or float experiment, and conduct an experiment with eggs and salt and fresh water.
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Displacement Reactions and Acid/Base Reactions

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this chemical reactions instructional activity, students review the solubility rules for common salts. Students determine the molecular equation, ionic equation, and net ionic equation for specific reactions. Students calculate moles...
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San Ignacio Lagoon: Economy or Ecology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars debate over the development in the habitat of gray whales. In this role playing lesson, students will take on various roles in a debate over the development of a salt production facility in the San Ignacio Lagoon...
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Make An Egg Float!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students analyze density. In this density lesson, students experiment with floating an egg. Students discover that salt added to water changes the density of the water allowing an egg to float.
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Activity #7 Mass, Volume and Density

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students comprehend that density depends on the type of material and not on the amount of material. They use a spoonfl of table salt and a box of table salt and have the same density. Pupils comprehend that density is calculated by...
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Other Aspects of Aqueous Equilibria

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this aqueous equilbria worksheet, students write the solubility product expressions for the given salts. Students determine what affects the solubility of salts. Students calculate the pH of a buffer solution. This worksheet has 14...
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Sand and Water

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students follow this recipe for fun clay creations. In this early childhood art and science lesson, students develop creative-thinking skills, fine-motor skills, and sensory awareness while they make, mold, and decorate salt dough.
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Snow Crystal Picture

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students color a snow scene and use salt to make snow crystals. In this art activity students add Epson Salt to water and paint the snow background. After drying the salt with sparkle like real snow.
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Salt Water Wedge

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to observe the properties of both salt and freshwater. They explain why freshwater will stay at the surface while salt water will travel up a river bottom because of density. Students also research the...
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Bug Night Light

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a bug night light. In this craft activity, students use salt shakers to make a night light. Students catch lightning bugs and put them in the salt shakers.
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Ranking Salinity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explain the uses of titration in chemistry and in industry. In this chemistry lesson, students determine the concentration of an unknown solution using titration. They calculate the percent of salt in saline solutions.
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Why Use Money? Getting What We Need

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the difference between purchase, barter, and payment for service, then explore how the Akan and North African people used a barter system to exchange gold and salt. They identify the most efficient ways of procuring your...
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Ice Cold

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design and conduct an experiment to investigate what happens when salt and ice come together and to determine if one form of salt is better for melting ice on steps and sidewalks.
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Plasmolysis in Elodea Plant Cells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students microscopically observe various subcellular components. They determine the effects of different salt solutions on Elodea plant cells. Students explain the major function of a cell membrane and describe its structure.
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Richard Misrach

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Learners analyze the Great Salt Lake as a resource for artistic work and other studies. In this art analysis lesson, students view maps that show the location of the Great Salt Lake including a satellite image. Learners can also study...

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