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Sugar and Salt Solutions

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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

Title Authors Level Type Updated
Solutions Unit Sample This contribution was designed by PhET. This contribution has received a Gold Star because it is a high quality inquiry-based activity that follows the PhET design guidelines (PDF) and teachers have found it useful. Trish Loeblein UG-Intro
HS		 HW
Lab
CQs
Demo		 7/21/13
Sugar and Salt Solutions: Exploring Common Substances Using a PhET Simulation This contribution was designed by PhET. This contribution has received a Gold Star because it is a high quality inquiry-based activity that follows the PhET design guidelines (PDF) and teachers have found it useful. Emily Moore, Lisa McGaw MS
HS		 Other
Lab		 8/11/12
Sugar and Salt Solutions: intro to bonding This contribution was designed by PhET. This contribution has received a Gold Star because it is a high quality inquiry-based activity that follows the PhET design guidelines (PDF) and teachers have found it useful. Trish Loeblein HS
UG-Intro		 HW
CQs
Lab		 2/19/12
Using PhET in High School Chemistry- all my activities in pdf This contribution was designed by PhET. This contribution has received a Gold Star because it is a high quality inquiry-based activity that follows the PhET design guidelines (PDF) and teachers have found it useful. Trish Loeblein HS
UG-Intro		 CQs
Demo
HW
Lab		 7/20/13
Concept Questions for Chemistry using PhET This contribution was designed by PhET. This contribution has received a Gold Star because it is a high quality inquiry-based activity that follows the PhET design guidelines (PDF) and teachers have found it useful. Trish Loeblein MS
HS
UG-Intro		 CQs 7/9/13
Introduction to Ionic & Covalent Bonding Kylee Darwin HS Lab 7/16/13
설탕과 소금 용액의 SIM 사용지침서 이화국(Wha Kuk Lee) MS
HS		 Lab
Demo		 5/17/13
Sugar and Salt Solutions Paulina Jednac K-5 Other 3/20/13

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Arabic العربية محاليل السكر والملح Run Now
Basque Basque Azukre eta gatz disoluzioa Run Now
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Brazilian Portuguese português (Brasil) Soluções de Açúcar e Sal Run Now
Chinese - Simplified 中文 (中国) 糖和盐溶液 Run Now
Chinese - Traditional 中文 (台灣) Sugar and Salt Solutions 糖與鹽水溶液 Run Now
Danish Dansk Sukker og saltopløsninger Run Now
Dutch Nederlands Suiker- en zoutoplossingen Run Now
French français Solutions de sucre et de sel Run Now
Galician Gallegan Solucións de Azucre e Sal Run Now
Georgian Georgian შაქრის დას მარილის ხსნარი Run Now
German Deutsch Zucker- und Salzlösungen Run Now
Greek Ελληνικά Διάλυμα ζάχαρης και αλατιού Run Now
Hebrew עברית תמיסות מלח וסוכר Run Now
Hungarian magyar Cukor- és sóoldatok Run Now
Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia Larutan Gula dan Garam Run Now
Italian italiano Soluzioni di zucchero e sale Run Now
Japanese 日本語 糖と塩の水溶液 Run Now
Khmer Khmer សូលុយស្យុងអំបិល និងស្ករ Run Now
Korean 한국어 설탕과 소금 용액 Run Now
Macedonian македонски Раствори шеќер и сол Run Now
Persian Persian حل شدن شکر و نمک Run Now
Polish polski Roztwory cukru i soli Run Now
Russian русский Сахар и соляные растворы Run Now
Serbian Српски Раствори шећера и соли Run Now
Slovenian Slovenščina Raztopine soli in sladkorja Run Now
Spanish español Soluciones de Azúcar y Sal Run Now
Spanish (Peru) español (Perú) Soluciones de Azúcar y Sal Run Now
Swedish svenska Socker- och saltlösningar Run Now
Turkish Türkçe Şeker ve Tuz Çözeltileri Run Now
Turkmen Turkmen Gantly we duzly garyndylar Run Now
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt Dung dịch muối và đường Run Now

Software Requirements

Windows Macintosh Linux
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

Design Team Third-party Libraries Thanks To
  • Kelly Lancaster (lead)
  • Sam Reid (developer)
  • Emily Moore
  • Julia Chamberlain
  • Trish Loeblein
  • Robert Parson
  • Kathy Perkins
  • JBox2D
  • Jmol
  • Piccolo2D
  • Laurie Langdon
  • Jack Barbera
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