Concentration
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Topics
- Solutions
- Concentration
- Saturation
- Molarity
- Moles
- Volume
- Solubility
Description
Watch your solution change color as you mix chemicals with water. Then check molarity with the concentration meter. What are all the ways you can change the concentration of your solution? Switch solutes to compare different chemicals and find out how concentrated you can go before you hit saturation!
Sample Learning Goals
- Describe the relationships between volume and amount of solute to solution concentration.
- Explain how solution color and concentration are related.
- Predict how solution concentration will change for any action (or combination of actions) that adds or removes water, solute, or solution, and explain why.
- Design a procedure for creating a solution of a given concentration.
- Design and justify a procedure for changing a solution from one concentration to another.
- Identify when a solution is saturated and predict how concentration will change for any action or combination of actions where water or solute change.
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Teacher Tips
Overview of sim controls, model simplifications, and insights into student thinking ( PDF ). |
Teacher-Submitted Activities
Title | Authors | Level | Type | ||
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Concentration - Clicker Questions | Yuen-ying Carpenter, Robert Parson, Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro | MC | ||
Investigation of a Solution’s Color (Qualitative) - Guided Inquiry Activity | Ted Clark, Julia Chamberlain | UG-Intro | Guided | ||
Concentration - Interactive Lecture Demonstration | Robert Parson, Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro | Demo | ||
Saturated Solutions - Interactive Lecture Demonstration | Ted Clark, Julia Chamberlain | UG-Intro | Demo | ||
How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? | Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | ||
Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS | Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | ||
PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum | Julia Chamberlain | HS UG-Intro |
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MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | HS MS |
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Concentration PhET WebLab | Melissa Venable | HS | Lab | ||
Student Guide for PhET - Concentration in html5 | Brian Libby | MS HS |
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Concentration Lab with Molarity Calculations | Russell Sears | HS UG-Intro |
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