Crazy Crystals

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals.

Definition of solution: 

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid.

(Eg; Sugar, salt and borax and water.)

Definition of saturated: 

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something.

(when no more sugar, salt and borax can be dissolved into the water)

Borax's Crystals  

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 3 pipe cleaners

4: 1 Peg

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 4 table spoons of borax

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 3 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and borax. We also got a plastic spoon to mix's the ingredients together.

Step 2: My teammate twisted the 3 pipe cleaners into a star, then put a peg on one color. 

Step 3: Then we all had a turn mixing the borax's into the warm water, and making shaw it was saturated.

Step 4: After mixing the ingredients together I got a piece of paper and write our names and the types of crystals. 

Step 5: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Sugar Crystals

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 1 pipe cleaner

4: 1 peg 

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 7 tablespoons of sugar

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 1 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and sugar. We also got a plastic spoon to mixed the ingredients together.

Step 2: Then we all had a turn mixing the sugar into the warm water, and making shaw it was saturated.

Step 3: After mixing the ingredients together, we wrote sugar crystals on the plastic cup.

Step 4: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Salt Crystals

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 1 pipe cleaner

4: 1 Peg  

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 4 tablespoons of salt

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 1 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and salt. We also got a plastic spoon to mixed the ingredients together.

Step 2: Then we all had a turn mixing the salt into the warm water, and making sure it was saturated.

Step 3: After mixing the ingredients together, we wrote salt crystals on the plastic cup.

Step 4: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Findings

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	Our Borax crystal covered the bottom half of the pipe cleaner star. - Cube	No sizing	Hard
Sugar	Our sugar crystal didn't form into a shape	No sizing	Soft
Salt	Our salt crystal didn't form into a shape	No sizing	Soft

Sugar crystal results - 2 photo's

Borax crystal results - 2 Photo's  

Salt crystal results - 2 photo's  

What crystals worked out best and why?
The borax's crystals were the best, because the pipe cleaner star formed more crystals on the bottom half than what the salt or sugar one did.