Brattleboro
Union High School
Introductory
Physical Science
(IPS): Science 1
SCIENCE 1 LAB LIST & DISCUSSION POINTS
Below is a complete list of labs that we will be doing. Click on the lab title to see specific discussion points and any other resources to use while writing your lab report. You might also want to print a copy of this page to use as a table of contents for your lab folder.
IPS LABS
Distillation of Wood (from IPS 5th edition)
"A Question of Measure"
(not in text)
1.4 Volume by Displacement of Water
1.11
Sensitivity of a Balance
2.1 - 2.4 Conservation of Mass Labs
2.5 Mass of copper and Sulfur
2.6 Mass of a Gas
3.2 Freezing and Melting
3.4 Boiling Point
3.6 Mass and Volume
3.9 Density of Solids
3.10 Density of Liquids
Lab test: Density
3.11 Density of a Gas
4.1
Dissolving a Solid in Water
4.3 Comparing Concentrations of Saturated
Solutions
4.4 Effect of Temperature on Solubility
4.6 Isopropanol as a Solvent
4.8 Two Gases
4.11 Solubility of Carbon Dioxide
5.1 Fractional Distillation
5.4 Separation of a Mixture of Solids
Lab Mid-Term: Density
of Egg Parts *year-long class only
5.5 Fractional Crystallization (from
IPS 5th edition)
5.6 Paper Chromatography
1.1 Decomposition of Baking Soda
6.2 Decomposition of Water
6.4
Synthesis of Zinc Chloride
6.6 A Reaction with Copper
6.7 Separation of a Mixture of Copper
and Copper Oxide
6.9 Precipitating Copper
7.3 Radioactive Background
7.5 Radioactive Absorption and Decay
8.2 Black Box
8.4 Fasteners and Rings
8.5 Other Compounds of Fs and R (from
IPS 5th edition)
8.6
Flame Tests of Some Elements
8.9 An Analog for Radioactive Decay
9.2
Thickness of a Thin Sheet of Metal
9.5 Size and Mass of an Oleic Acid
Molecule
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