Salt Crystal Experiment Worksheet
What you do (Dry out, crystals in): 1. An adult pours warm water into a cup. 2. Stir in salt, a spoon at a time, until no more dissolves. 3. Pour the salty water into a shallow dish and lay a string in it. 4. Leave it on a sunny windowsill, out of reach of small children, and check each day.
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- 1.🧈 Can this change be undone: baking a cake? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sawdust (b) cooking oil (c) chalk powder (d) baking soda
- 3.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? Which of these is kept the same? (a) sunny or shady place (b) days to see crystals (c) the amount of water
- 4.True or false: a spoon is not needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🛟 Where should you keep the crystal dish while it dries? (a) in a busy doorway (b) next to the baby (c) on the edge of a table (d) safe from small children
- 6.🧺 Do we need a mirror for growing salt crystals? (a) needed (b) not needed
- 7.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? Which of these is kept the same? (a) sunny or shady place (b) days to see crystals (c) the same dish
- 8.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a piece of string (b) salt (c) yeast (d) a spoon
- 9.🛟 Who should pour the warm water for the crystal experiment? (a) nobody needs to (b) a friend who is running (c) the youngest child (d) a grown-up
- 10.True or false: chalk powder does not dissolve in water. (a) True (b) False
- 11.📘 What do we call a solution that cannot dissolve any more salt? (a) saturated (b) frozen (c) magnetic (d) empty
- 12.🧺 Which of these is needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a magnet (b) turmeric powder (c) yeast (d) a piece of string
- 13.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) sand (b) chalk powder (c) table salt (d) small pebbles
- 14.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) freezing water (b) melting ice (c) dissolving salt (d) baking a cake
- 15.True or false: folding paper is a change that cannot be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) sugar (b) baking soda (c) chalk powder (d) glucose powder
- 17.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) a magnet (b) a spoon (c) salt (d) a piece of string
- 18.🧺 Do we need a balloon for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 19.True or false: yeast is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 20.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? What do we do with “days to see crystals”? (a) we keep it the same (b) we change it (c) we measure it
- 21.🧺 Do we need yeast for growing salt crystals? (a) needed (b) not needed
- 22.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? Which of these is the one thing we change? (a) sunny or shady place (b) the amount of salt (c) the amount of water (d) the same dish
- 23.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the amount of water is what we measure. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧂 Does cooking oil dissolve in water? (a) does not dissolve (b) dissolves in water
- 25.🧈 Can this change be undone: dissolving salt? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 26.🧈 Can this change be undone: melting butter? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 27.True or false: baking soda dissolves in water. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: a mirror is not needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) dissolving salt (b) freezing water (c) folding paper (d) browning lemon ink
- 30.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the amount of water is kept the same. (a) True (b) False
- 31.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: sunny or shady place is what we measure. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) salt (b) a piece of string (c) yeast (d) warm water
- 33.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) sugar (b) baking soda (c) cooking oil (d) food colour
- 34.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) baking soda (b) chalk powder (c) small pebbles (d) sawdust
- 35.🧺 Do we need a magnet for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 36.🔮 Predict: you use sugar instead of salt. What happens as it dries? (a) salt crystals form (b) sugar crystals form (c) it turns to butter (d) it turns to oil
- 37.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) milk turning to curd (b) folding paper (c) browning lemon ink (d) baking a cake
- 38.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? What do we do with “sunny or shady place”? (a) we measure it (b) we change it (c) we keep it the same
- 39.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the amount of salt is the one thing we change. (a) False (b) True
- 40.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) warm water (b) a piece of string (c) a spoon (d) a mirror
Answer key
- cannot be undone
- baking soda
- the amount of water
- False
- safe from small children
- not needed
- the same dish
- yeast
- a grown-up
- True
- saturated
- a piece of string
- table salt
- baking a cake
- False
- chalk powder
- a magnet
- not needed
- False
- we measure it
- not needed
- sunny or shady place
- False
- does not dissolve
- can be undone
- can be undone
- True
- True
- browning lemon ink
- True
- False
- yeast
- cooking oil
- baking soda
- not needed
- sugar crystals form
- folding paper
- we change it
- False
- a mirror
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