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Primary School - Grades K-3
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Which recipe will create the biggest bubbles?
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Find out how different concentrations of a water/salt solution affected the speed of the Hot Wheels™ Formula Fuelers racer on our race course.
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When adding a drop of detergent to a plate of milk with food coloring, what kind of milk produces the best swirling of color: 1%, 2%, or whole milk? What happens to plain water?
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Will salt make ice melt faster?
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Water K-12 Experiments & Background Information
Interdisciplinary Topic: Water
Interdisciplinary Topic: Ice
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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Find the critical point for colloidal mixtures composed of different types of starches.
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Mmake gels out of cornstarch and water, and test if you can change the consistency of the final product by changing the ratio of ingredients.
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Testing Water for Hardness Using Soap Bubbles
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The Effect of Wind Speed, Air Humidity, and Air Temperature on Evaporation Rate of Water
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Find out if adding various amounts of different solutes to water will increases its boiling point.
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Find out if adding salt, oil, detergent, and heating water could influence ordinary tap water's surface tension.
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Determine which water type will dissolve a soap bar at the fastest rate.
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Test the solubility of ink in water and acetone.
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What is the pH of rain in your area?
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The effect of salt on the boiling temperature of water
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Evaluate the effectiveness of various ice melting products
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What is the effect of chlorine concentrations on carbon filter performance?
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Water K-12 Experiments & Background Information
Interdisciplinary Topic: Water
Interdisciplinary Topic: Ice
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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Determine ionic or non-ionic nature of water by building your own water conductivity meter
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How Do Substances Mixed in Water Affect Its Evaporation Rate?
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Does the Rate of Heating Water Have an Affinity for Salinity?
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Find the best way to recycle urine so the astronauts would be able to have water without costing the space station a lot of money and cargo weight.
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The effect of dissolved salt and sugar on the melting rate of ice
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How Does Sunlight Affect the Chemistry of Water in a Saltwater Reef Aquarium?
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Create an efficient and economical cold pack using water and different types and different quantities of fertilizers.
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Investigate the attraction forces between sugar and water.
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Test different Kinds of water for pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphates, coli form bacteria, iron and hardness.
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What is the best way of cleaning water? (distillation, filtering with coffee filter, filtering with Kleenex, and filtering with paper towel).
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How Four Salts Affect Electrical Conductivity
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Find the best way to recycle urine so astronauts will be able to have water without costing the space station a lot of money and cargo weight.
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How Fast Do Hydrogen Ions Diffuse through Water?
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Solar Electrolysis of Water for Hydrogen Production
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To what extent does the surface tension of water decrease as the amount of detergent is increased?
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Adjusting Chlorine Level to Minimize Evaporation Loss of Pool Water
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The effect of temperature on the water solubility of alum, baking soda, Epsom salt, and salt
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Deicers
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A comparison of hard water, softened water and reverse osmosis water
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How does temperature affect the speed of molecules in water?
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The International Boiling Point Project
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How salt affects the boiling point of water?
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Does adding salt to water lower its freezing point?
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The factors which affect the reaction of acid rain on limestone
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Conductivity of water
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Test different water resources for acidity.
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Does the pH level of water affect the rate of its evaporation?
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Investigate Flow Dynamics of the Salt Oscillator
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See how the hydraulic conductivity of water and crude oil is different.
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Water K-12 Experiments & Background Information
Interdisciplinary Topic: Water
Interdisciplinary Topic: Ice
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High School - Grades 10-12
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Measure Hardness of Water
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A New Quantum Mechanical Approach in Determining the Octanol Water Partition Coefficients (Kow) of Organic Aromatic Compounds
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Examining Water Freezing Point Depression as a Function of Solute Ionization from a Thermodynamic Perspective
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Determine whether temperature affects the salinity and pH level of ocean water.
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Water purification technologies
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Water K-12 Experiments & Background Information
Interdisciplinary Topic: Water
Interdisciplinary Topic: Ice
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Quick Chemistry Facts
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Chemistry Resources
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Periodic Table Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Chemical Safety
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Chemistry Science Fair Projects Books
    
    
    
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