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Sugar and Salt Solutions
What happens when sugar and salt are added to water? Pour in sugar, shake in salt, and evaporate water to see the effects on concentration and conductivity. Zoom in to see how different sugar and salt compounds dissolve. Zoom in again to explore the role of water.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Solutions
- Ionic
- Covalent
Sample Learning Goals
- Use pictures and proportional reasoning to explain changes in concentration
- Draw what happens at the molecular level when compounds dissolve in water
- Identify if a compound is a salt or sugar by macroscopic observations or microscopic representations.
- Explain how using combinations of solutes changes solution characteristics or not.
- Use observations to explain ways concentration of a solute can change.
- Describe ways the formula, macroscopic observations, or microscopic representations of a compound indicates if the bonding is ionic or covalent.
Tips for Teachers
The teacher's guide (pdf) contains tips created by the PhET team.
Teaching Ideas
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Sugar and Salt Solutions: intro to bonding
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro |
CQs Lab HW |
2/19/12 |
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Concept Questions for Chemistry using PhET
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro MS |
CQs | 2/19/12 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
Related Simulations
Translated Versions:
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| Chinese - Traditional | 中文 (台灣) | Sugar and Salt Solutions 糖與鹽水溶液 | Run Now | Download |
| Danish | Dansk | Sukker og saltopløsninger | Run Now | Download |
| German | Deutsch | Zucker- und Salzlösungen | Run Now | Download |
| Greek | Ελληνικά | Διάλυμα ζάκχαρης και αλατιού | Run Now | Download |
| Hebrew | עברית | תמיסות מלח וסוכר | Run Now | Download |
| Hungarian | magyar | Cukor- és sóoldatok | Run Now | Download |
| Italian | italiano | Soluzioni di zucchero e sale | Run Now | Download |
| Korean | 한국어 | 설탕과 소금 용액 | Run Now | Download |
| Persian | Persian | حل شدن شکر و نمک | Run Now | Download |
| Serbian | Српски | Раствори шећера и соли | Run Now | Download |
| Slovenian | Slovenščina | Raztopine soli in sladkorja | Run Now | Download |
| Spanish | español | Soluciones de Azúcar y Sal | Run Now | Download |
| Vietnamese | Tiếng Việt | Dung dịch muối và đường | Run Now | Download |
Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
Credits
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