Activity

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
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