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Laboratory Exercise: Objective/s
Laboratory Exercise: Objective/s
This experiment aims to classify common household items into acids or bases using a simple indicator.
Using the same household items, acid-base reactions will also be shown through a simple experiment.
Objective/s:
At the end of this activity, the students are expected to have been able to:
Make a simple indicator to help identify acids and bases;
Classify common household items as acids and bases;
Perform a simple acid-base reaction;
Identify the chemical equation and predict the products based on the reaction.
Part I.
Material/s Needed:
Red cabbage
Lemon juice (model sample for acid)
Soapy water (model sample for base)
Drinking water
Milk
Soda (Coca-cola® or Pepsi®)
Vinegar
Baking powder
Baking soda
Tomato/ tomato juice
Vitamin C in water
Salt in water
Brown sugar in water
Shampoo
Detergent
Bleach
Dropper (for each item, and another one for the red cabbage)
White plates or similar items (flat surface with white background where you can drop liquids)
Tissue or clean cloth for wiping spills
Glass jar
Pot*
Stove*
Knife*
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*Please ask help from adults if necessary, especially when handling these items.
NOTE: Set up your video camera. Take your video while you are doing the activity. You will submit this as
your output for the activity.
Procedure:
1. Take a red cabbage and slice it into small pieces.
2. Place them in a pot and fill with enough water to cover the pieces.
3. Heat mixture on a stove and boil for 30 minutes.
4. Cool then collect the red cabbage juice into a glass jar.
The boiled cabbage is still edible, so if you want to use it as an ingredient for any meal, you can.
5. Using a dropper, place 2-3 drops of lemon juice onto a white plate.
6. Using another dropper, add 1-2 drops of the red cabbage juice.
7. Record if any color change happens.
8. Repeat steps 5 to 7, for soapy water and the remaining materials (from drinking water to bleach).
9. Record all observations on the table provided.
2. What color change occurred when the red cabbage juice was mixed with the lemon juice (acid)?
a. no change
b. blue turns red
c. blue turns yellow
d. blue turns green
3. What color change occurred when the red cabbage juice was mixed with the soapy water (base)?
a. blue turns red
b. blue turns green
c. no change
d. blue turns yellow
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Part II.
Material/s Needed:
Baking soda
Vinegar
Mixing bowl
Measuring spoon
Goggles (or other eye protection)
Laboratory coat (or another layer of protective clothing)
Closed shoes
Gloves
NOTE: Set up your video camera. Take your video while you are doing the activity. You will submit this as
your output for the activity.
Procedure:
Place a spoonful of baking soda into the mixing bowl. Slowly add a spoonful of vinegar into the baking
soda. Observe what happens.
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Laboratory Quiz:
By using the color chart shown in Figure 1, rate the intensity of the color change you observed
when mixing the red cabbage juice with the household items. Classify the household items as
acids or bases by completing the table below
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Figure 1. Range of color change possibly seen using the red cabbage juice as an indicator.
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/acids/acids_15.gif
17. Is the reaction between the household ingredient and the indicator an example of a reversible
acid-base reaction?
a. Yes. You can change the indicator back to its starting color by adding either an acid or a
base.
b. No. Once the indicator changes, it can no longer be returned to its original color.
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18. What is the similarity between water and the red cabbage juice?
a. They can both resist drastic changes in pH.
b. They can act both as an acid and as a base, depending on the other reacting compound.
c. They are both acids.
d. They are both bases.
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23. Carbonic acid is easily converted into water and _______, hence the fizzing and bubbling during the
reaction.
H2CO3 H2O + ______
a. CO – carbon monoxide
b. CO3 – carbonate
c. CO2 – carbon dioxide
d. C - carbon
25. What will be the chemical equation for the dissolution or ionization of sodium acetate?
a. NaCH3COO NaOH + CH2CO
b. NaCH3COO Na+ + CH3COO-
c. NaCH3COO Na- + CH3COO+
d. None of the above
26. If instead of vinegar, lemon juice was used, what will you observe?
a. Nothing, because lemon juice is a base.
b. Nothing, because lemon juice is an acid.
c. There will be bubbling too, since lemon juice is a base.
d. There will be bubbling too, since lemon juice is an acid.
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Criteria (%) 4 3 2 1
Participation Used time well in Used time pretty Did the lab but Participation was
(30%) lab and focused well. Stayed did not appear minimal or
attention on the focused on the very interested. student was
experiment experiment most Focus was lost on hostile about
of the time several participating
occasions.
Safety (10%) Lab is carried out Lab is generally Lab is carried out Safety
with full attention carried out with with some procedures were
to relevant safety attention to attention to ignored and/or
procedures. The relevant safety relevant safety some aspect of
set-up, procedures. The procedures. The the experiment
experiment, and set-up, set-up, posed a threat to
tear-down posed experiment, and experiment, and the safety of the
no safety threat to tear-down posed tear-down posed student or
any individual. no safety threat no safety threat others.
to any individual, to any individual,
but one safety but several safety
procedure needs procedures need
to be reviewed. to be reviewed.
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Work is neat and symbols, units more minor figures are not
organized. and significant errors using included.
Includes digits. symbols, units
appropriate and significant
symbols, units digits or 2 major
and significant errors.
digits.
Calculations All calculations Some Some No calculations
(40%) are shown and the calculations are calculations are are shown OR
results are correct shown and the shown and the results are
and labeled results are results labeled inaccurate or
appropriately. correct and appropriately. mislabeled.
labeled
appropriately.