Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Disappearing Volume

In this activity, students mix a given quantity of salt with a fixed volume of water. Mass and volume measurements are made before and after mixing to determine if these quantities change. Students observe that mass is conserved during dissolving while volume is...

Teacher Demo: Bright Star or Close Star?

When you gaze up in the night sky some stars will be very bright while other stars are barely visible to the unaided eye. With the aid of binoculars you may be able to observe different colours in the stars. The brightness and colour of a star depends on three...
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