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.True or false: glucose powder dissolves in water. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🧂 Why do crystals appear as the dish dries? (a) salt eats water (b) the dish melts (c) salt grows roots (d) water evaporates
- 3.True or false: a mirror is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🧂 What shape are table salt crystals under a magnifying glass? (a) tiny spheres (b) tiny stars (c) tiny triangles (d) tiny cubes
- 5.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) salt (b) warm water (c) turmeric powder (d) a shallow dish
- 6.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) sand (b) food colour (c) small pebbles (d) chalk powder
- 7.True or false: cooking an egg is a change that can be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) a mirror (b) a spoon (c) salt (d) warm water
- 9.🛟 Who should pour the warm water for the crystal experiment? (a) a friend who is running (b) the youngest child (c) nobody needs to (d) a grown-up
- 10.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) salt (b) a spoon (c) a magnet (d) a shallow dish
- 11.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) rusting iron (b) melting butter (c) cooking an egg (d) milk turning to curd
- 12.🧈 Can this change be undone: baking a cake? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 13.🧂 Does sawdust dissolve in water? (a) dissolves in water (b) does not dissolve
- 14.🧺 Do we need warm water for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) table salt (b) glucose powder (c) baking soda (d) chalk powder
- 16.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) rusting iron (b) browning lemon ink (c) freezing water (d) milk turning to curd
- 17.True or false: turmeric powder is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 18.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? What do we do with “the amount of water”? (a) we change it (b) we measure it (c) we keep it the same
- 19.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the kind of salt is kept the same. (a) False (b) True
- 20.⚖️ 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 same dish (b) days to see crystals (c) sunny or shady place (d) the kind of salt
- 21.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) chalk powder (b) sand (c) table salt (d) cooking oil
- 22.⚖️ 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) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: baking a cake is a change that can be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a spoon (b) yeast (c) salt (d) warm water
- 25.🧺 Do we need a spoon for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 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 change it (b) we measure it (c) we keep it the same
- 27.True or false: dissolving salt is a change that cannot be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) glucose powder (b) sugar (c) sand (d) baking soda
- 29.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) milk turning to curd (b) melting butter (c) folding paper (d) freezing water
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) baking soda (b) glucose powder (c) food colour (d) sand
- 31.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) sand (b) baking soda (c) chalk powder (d) small pebbles
- 32.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) warm water (b) a balloon (c) salt (d) a spoon
- 33.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: sunny or shady place is the one thing we change. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🧺 Do we need a shallow dish for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 35.🔮 Predict: crystals grow slowly where nobody disturbs them. How big are they? (a) smaller crystals (b) no crystals (c) liquid crystals (d) bigger crystals
- 36.🧂 Does food colour dissolve in water? (a) dissolves in water (b) does not dissolve
- 37.True or false: cooking oil does not dissolve in water. (a) True (b) False
- 38.⚖️ Fair test — do salt crystals form faster on a sunny windowsill or in a shady cupboard? True or false: the same dish is the one thing we change. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧂 Does sugar dissolve in water? (a) does not dissolve (b) dissolves in water
- 40.🧺 Do we need a balloon for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
Answer key
- True
- water evaporates
- False
- tiny cubes
- turmeric powder
- food colour
- False
- a mirror
- a grown-up
- a magnet
- melting butter
- cannot be undone
- does not dissolve
- needed
- chalk powder
- freezing water
- False
- we keep it the same
- True
- days to see crystals
- table salt
- False
- False
- yeast
- needed
- we keep it the same
- False
- sand
- milk turning to curd
- sand
- baking soda
- a balloon
- True
- needed
- bigger crystals
- dissolves in water
- True
- False
- dissolves in water
- not needed
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