Download Data Table Reaction P or C? Your Observations 1. Scraping wax

Physical and Chemical Changes Lab
Name ________________________
Data Table
Reaction
1. Scraping wax with
spatula
1. Melting candle wax
1. Burning a Candle
2. Tearing Paper
2. Burning Paper
3. Dissolving NaCl
3. Mixing NaCl with
AgNO3
4. Cutting Mg ribbon
4. Mixing HCl with Mg
5. Grinding CuSO45H2O
5. Heating CuSO45H2O
5. Adding water to
CuSO4
6. Mixing acetic acid
and sodium
bicarbonate
P or
C?
Your Observations
Was a new
substance formed?
Physical and Chemical Changes Lab
Name ________________________
Discussion Questions: (Use complete sentences)
1. Name 2 possible indications that a chemical change has taken place.
Give examples from this experiment.
2. Chemical change involves the formation of “new” substances. Briefly
describe the “new” substance(s) that formed for each chemical change
that occurred in the lab.
Conclusion Ideas: Make sure your conclusion is written or typed in full
sentences with good grammar and correct sentence and paragraph
structure (topic sentences, etc.)
 Discuss physical changes
o Definition of physical change
o Some verbs indicating physical change
o All examples of physical changes in this lab
o A real-life example of a physical change
 Discuss chemical changes
o Definition of chemical change
o All examples from this lab of chemical changes
o Verbs and indicators of chemical changes
o A real-life example of a chemical change
CHALLENGE: Do not merely follow the bulleted list above.
Work on incorporating the above information into a well-developed
paragraph that would be worthy of publication.