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.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) table salt (b) cooking oil (c) sawdust (d) small pebbles
- 2.⚖️ 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
- 3.📘 What do we call a solution that cannot dissolve any more salt? (a) empty (b) magnetic (c) frozen (d) saturated
- 4.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) a spoon (b) salt (c) a balloon (d) a shallow dish
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) table salt (b) sawdust (c) small pebbles (d) cooking oil
- 6.🧂 Does food colour dissolve in water? (a) does not dissolve (b) dissolves in water
- 7.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a battery cell (b) a shallow dish (c) warm water (d) a piece of string
- 8.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a shallow dish (b) warm water (c) salt (d) a mirror
- 9.True or false: turmeric powder is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) True (b) False
- 10.True or false: small pebbles does not dissolve in water. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: browning lemon ink is a change that can be undone. (a) True (b) False
- 12.⚖️ 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) True (b) False
- 13.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) sugar (b) table salt (c) sand (d) food colour
- 14.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a piece of string (b) turmeric powder (c) warm water (d) a shallow dish
- 15.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) a spoon (b) a shallow dish (c) warm water (d) yeast
- 16.True or false: sugar does not dissolve in water. (a) True (b) False
- 17.⚖️ 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
- 18.🧈 Can this change be undone: dissolving salt? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 19.🧈 Which of these is a change that can be undone? (a) browning lemon ink (b) baking a cake (c) melting ice (d) milk turning to curd
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) food colour (b) table salt (c) small pebbles (d) glucose powder
- 21.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) warm water (b) a spoon (c) a battery cell (d) a shallow dish
- 22.🧺 Do we need a battery cell for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 23.🧺 Do we need a piece of string for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 24.🧺 Which of these is not needed for growing salt crystals? (a) a shallow dish (b) a balloon (c) salt (d) warm water
- 25.⚖️ 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
- 26.True or false: sawdust dissolves in water. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) table salt (b) sawdust (c) food colour (d) baking soda
- 28.🧈 Can this change be undone: milk turning to curd? (a) cannot be undone (b) can be undone
- 29.True or false: a magnet is needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🧺 Do we need warm water for growing salt crystals? (a) not needed (b) needed
- 31.🧺 Which of these is needed for growing salt crystals? (a) warm water (b) a balloon (c) a battery cell (d) turmeric powder
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sand (b) sugar (c) chalk powder (d) cooking oil
- 33.⚖️ 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
- 34.🌊 How is salt made in salt pans by the sea? (a) fish make it (b) salt rains down (c) sand is ground up (d) sea water evaporates
- 35.🧂 Which of these does not dissolve in water? (a) chalk powder (b) baking soda (c) sugar (d) food colour
- 36.True or false: salt is not needed for growing salt crystals. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🧺 Three of these are needed for growing salt crystals. Which one is NOT needed? (a) warm water (b) a shallow dish (c) turmeric powder (d) a spoon
- 38.🧈 Can this change be undone: rusting iron? (a) can be undone (b) cannot be undone
- 39.🧈 Which of these is a change that cannot be undone? (a) melting ice (b) dissolving salt (c) browning lemon ink (d) freezing water
- 40.🧂 Which of these dissolves in water? (a) sand (b) chalk powder (c) glucose powder (d) sawdust
Answer key
- table salt
- True
- saturated
- a balloon
- table salt
- dissolves in water
- a battery cell
- a mirror
- False
- True
- False
- False
- sand
- turmeric powder
- yeast
- False
- False
- can be undone
- melting ice
- small pebbles
- a battery cell
- not needed
- needed
- a balloon
- we change it
- False
- sawdust
- cannot be undone
- False
- needed
- warm water
- sugar
- we keep it the same
- sea water evaporates
- chalk powder
- False
- turmeric powder
- cannot be undone
- browning lemon ink
- glucose powder
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