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Title of the Experience
Density
Name of the teacher
A.B.
Country where it took place
Romania
School typology
High Secondary School
Thematic Area
Chemistry
Experience typology
Teaching in class
Type of contact
Direct
Description of the Experience
Start from students’ world, elicit what they know, otherwise you’ll lose them and they will get lost in abstractions. Density can be a very abstract concept for them, which can b easily understood from a simple experiment. We all know that an egg sinks to the bottom if you drop it into a glass of ordinary drinking water but what happens if you add salt? The results are very interesting and can teach you some fun facts about density. What you need is: one egg, water, salt and a tall drinking glass. Ask students to pour water into the glass until it is about half full. Then they have to stir in lots of salt (about 6 tablespoons). Carefully pour in plain water until the glass is nearly full (be careful to not disturb or mix the salty water with the plain water). Gently lower the egg into the water and watch what happens.
Salt water is denser than ordinary tap water, the denser the liquid the easier it is for an object to float in it. When you lower the egg into the liquid it drops through the normal tap water until it reaches the salty water, at this point the water is dense enough for the egg to float. If you were careful when you added the tap water to the salt water, they will not have mixed, enabling the egg to amazingly float in the middle of the glass.

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