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The document outlines a series of water properties lab activities, each requiring students to observe and record specific water behaviors. Stations include experiments on freezing, surface tension, buoyancy, and the interaction of water with other substances. Students must document the title, observed property, and explanation for each activity in their lab notebooks.

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water_properties_lab_activities

The document outlines a series of water properties lab activities, each requiring students to observe and record specific water behaviors. Stations include experiments on freezing, surface tension, buoyancy, and the interaction of water with other substances. Students must document the title, observed property, and explanation for each activity in their lab notebooks.

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Water Properties Lab Activities

Directions: For each station, you must write the following in your lab notebook:
A. Title of station
B. Which water property is being observed?
C. Explain how that activity shows that water property.
Station #1: Freeze!
 Observe the differences between a can of soda that was frozen, and a can of soda that remained at room
temperature.

Station #2: Dish-and-clips (Materials: paper clip, petri dish, tweezers, water in a beaker, paper towels)
 After drying off the paperclip with a paper towel, use the tweezers to gently set the paperclip on the water.
 When finished, refill the dish if necessary; place the paper clip on the paper towel to dry.

Station #3: Sink or Swim(Materials: tongs, ice cubes (d = 0.917 g/mL), beaker of water, beaker of ethanol (d = 0.789
g/mL)CAUTION: ETHANOL IS HIGHLY POISONOUS! DO NOT DRINK!
 Using the tongs, place an ice cube in each beaker.
 When finished, leave materials as you found them. If more ice cubes are needed, notify your teacher.

Station #4: Stop on a Dime (Materials: dropper, dime, beaker of water)


 Make a prediction of how many drops of water will “fit” on the dime before it spills over the edge.
 Counting drops as you go, use the dropper to carefully add drops of water to the top of the dime.
 Continue to add drops until water spills over the edge. Record the total number of drops.

Station #5: Much Color-ado About Nothing (Materials: food coloring, 2 test tubes, 2 10-mL graduated cylinders, water
in a beaker, oil in a beaker)
 Observe two flasks. One with water and food coloring and one with oil and food coloring.
 Do not shake the flasks.

Station #6: To Wax Philosophic (Materials: wax paper, dropper, water in beaker)
 Using the dropper, form a small puddle (about the size of a dime) on the wax paper.
 Place the tip of the dropper in the center of the puddle and slowly drag the tip of the dropper around the wax
paper.
 When finished, dump the water back in to the beaker.

Station #7: Loony Ballooney (Materials: paper towel, balloon, narrow stream of water from faucet)
 Rub the balloon with the paper towel (or on your lab partners hair!)
 Carefully turn on the faucet so that a narrow stream of water flows.
 Bring the balloon near (but not touching!) the stream of water. Observe

Station #8: Anti-Gravity (Materials: paper towel, shallow dish of water)


 Fold a paper towel in half, then roll it in to a tight tube which has a diameter smaller than that of the dish.
 Stand the rolled paper towel in the water in the dish. Observe.

Station #9: Down to the Wire (Materials: ice cubes, short piece of wire)
 Place an ice cube on the table and lay the piece of wire over the ice cube.
 Grasping the wire very close to the ice cube, slowly push the wire down on the ice cube using your thumbs.
 After pushing for about 30 seconds, observe the results. Continue to gently push the wire on the ice cube.

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