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Diversity of Materials in the Environment
4.

List all the materials you need, including the amount and ask these from your teacher.5.

Do your investigation using the proper measuring devices. Be sure torecord your observations and tabulate them. Write
everything youobserved during the dissolving test. These observations are the evidencefrom which you can draw your
conclusions.6.

Identify variables (for example, amount of amount of coffee or powdered juice) that you need to control in order to have a
fair test.7.

Identify the dependent and independent variables.8.

List all the materials you need, including the amount and ask these from your teacher.9.

Do your investigation using the proper measuring devices. Be sure torecord your observations and tabulate them. Write
everything youobserved during the dissolving test. These observations are the evidencefrom which you can draw your
conclusions.10.

What is your conclusion? Does coffee dissolve well in cold or in hotwater? Does powdered juice dissolve well in cold or in hot water?
Usethe observations and results you recorded to explain your answer.11.

Does your conclusion support or reject your hypothesis? Explain yourresults.12.

What is your conclusion? Does coffee dissolve well in cold or in hotwater? Does powdered juice dissolve well in cold or in hot water?
Usethe observations and results you recorded to explain your answer.13.

Does your conclusion support or reject your hypothesis? Explain yourresults.



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The Nature of Solute
In Activity 6, you will find out if: (1) sugar dissolves better in hot than incold water, and (2) salt dissolves better in hot
than in cold water.
Activity 6Which Dissolves Faster in Hot and in Cold Water:Sugar or Salt?
1.

Discuss with your group mates how you will do your investigation.2.

Write your hypothesis in a testable form. Describe a test you couldconduct to find out answers to the given two questions
above.3.

Identify variables (for example, amount of amount of coffee or powdered juice) that you need to control in order to have a
fair test.4.

Identify the dependent and independent variables.5.

List all the materials you need, including the amount and ask these from your teacher.6.

Do your investigation using the proper measuring devices. Be sure torecord your observations and tabulate them. Write
everything youobserved during the dissolving test. These observations are the evidencefrom which you can draw your
conclusions.7.

What is your conclusion? Does coffee dissolve well in cold or in hotwater? Does powdered juice dissolve well in cold or in
hot water? Use theobservations and results you recorded to explain your answer.8.

Does your conclusion support or reject your hypothesis? Explain yourresults. The following questions can guide you:a.

Does
sugar
dissolve better in hot water than in cold water?Explain your answer, based on your observations from theinvestigation.b.

Does
salt
dissolve better in hot than in cold water? Explain youranswer, based on your observations from the investigation.



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c.

Which is affected most by increasing the temperature of thewater

the solubility of salt or the solubility of sugar? Explain your answer.You learned from Activity 5 that in general, a solute
easily dissolves inwater when you increase the temperature. But the effect of temperature isnot that simple. The type or
nature of the solute will affect its solubility.You observed from Activity 6 that increasing the temperature eithermakes a
solid more soluble or less soluble in water. For some solutes,increasing the temperature does not have any effect on the
solubility of thesolute.Now that you have completed the activities in this module, you havelearned the properties of a
solution, the ways of reporting its concentration,as well as the effects of stirring, particle size, temperature, and type
of solute on how fast a solid dissolves in water.While learning about solutions, you also had the chance to
gatherinformation and gain new knowledge through the process of conductingscience investigations. You also learned the
importance of identifying thevariables that had to be controlled in order to make a good plan formeasuring and testing
the variables you are concerned about.What you have started doing in these investigations is what scientistsusually do when they seek
answers to a scientific question or problem. Inthe next modules, you will be challenged to ask more questions
aboutmaterials around you. You will try to explain answers to your hypothesis(your suggested explanation) after you
have done your investigation.