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.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) a piece of string (b) salt (c) warm water (d) a mirror
- 2.🧂 Does chalk powder dissolve in water? (a) dissolves in water (b) does not dissolve
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) food colour (b) glucose powder (c) sand (d) sugar
- 4.True or false: salt is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 5.🧈 Can this change be undone: melting butter? (a) can be undone (b) cannot be undone
- 6.True or false: a spoon is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧈 Can this change be undone: melting ice? (a) can be undone (b) cannot be undone
- 8.🌊 How is salt made in salt pans by the sea? (a) fish make it (b) sea water evaporates (c) sand is ground up (d) salt rains down
- 9.🧂 Does glucose powder dissolve in water? (a) does not dissolve (b) dissolves in water
- 10.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) browning lemon ink (b) freezing water (c) folding paper (d) dissolving salt
- 11.🧂 Does table salt dissolve in water? (a) does not dissolve (b) dissolves in water
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sugar (b) sand (c) small pebbles (d) sawdust
- 13.True or false: melting butter is a change that can be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🧺 Do we need a battery cell for growing salt crystals? (a) needed (b) not needed
- 15.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? Which of these is what we measure? (a) the amount of salt (b) days to see crystals (c) the amount of water (d) sunny or shady place
- 16.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) food colour (b) table salt (c) sawdust (d) sugar
- 17.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) freezing water (b) milk turning to curd (c) browning lemon ink (d) rusting iron
- 18.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the kind of salt is what we measure. (a) False (b) True
- 19.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) cooking an egg (b) baking a cake (c) milk turning to curd (d) melting ice
- 20.🛟 Where should you keep the crystal dish while it dries? (a) safe from small children (b) in a busy doorway (c) on the edge of a table (d) next to the baby
- 21.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: sunny or shady place is kept the same. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🧈 Can this change be undone: dissolving salt? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 23.True or false: melting butter is a change that cannot be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) yeast (b) warm water (c) a shallow dish (d) salt
- 25.True or false: a mirror is not needed for growing salt crystals. (a) True (b) False
- 26.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? What do we do with “the amount of salt”? (a) we measure it (b) we keep it the same (c) we change it
- 27.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) milk turning to curd (b) dissolving salt (c) freezing water (d) melting butter
- 28.🧺 Do we need turmeric powder for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 29.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) salt (b) a piece of string (c) a spoon (d) a magnet
- 30.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? What do we do with “the same dish”? (a) we change it (b) we measure it (c) we keep it the same
- 31.True or false: yeast is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🧺 Which of these is needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a battery cell (b) turmeric powder (c) a spoon (d) a magnet
- 33.🧺 Do we need yeast for growing salt crystals? (a) needed (b) not needed
- 34.🧂 Why do we stir in salt until no more will dissolve? (a) to change its colour (b) to cool the water (c) to make it very salty (d) to make it fizz
- 35.🧺 Do we need a spoon for growing salt crystals? (a) needed (b) not needed
- 36.📘 What do we call a solution that cannot dissolve any more salt? (a) frozen (b) saturated (c) empty (d) magnetic
- 37.True or false: sawdust dissolves in water. (a) True (b) False
- 38.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? Which of these is kept the same? (a) days to see crystals (b) the amount of salt (c) sunny or shady place
- 39.🧺 Do we need a mirror for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 40.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) sugar (b) table salt (c) sand (d) food colour
Answer key
- a mirror
- does not dissolve
- sand
- True
- can be undone
- True
- can be undone
- sea water evaporates
- dissolves in water
- browning lemon ink
- dissolves in water
- sugar
- True
- not needed
- days to see crystals
- sawdust
- freezing water
- False
- melting ice
- safe from small children
- False
- can be undone
- False
- yeast
- True
- we keep it the same
- milk turning to curd
- not needed
- a magnet
- we keep it the same
- False
- a spoon
- not needed
- to make it very salty
- needed
- saturated
- False
- the amount of salt
- not needed
- sand
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