1. Research ???s What is it? (sodium polyacrylate) How is it used?
In everyday items?
Industrial items?
To improve quality of life?
Are there any trends about the use of this chemical you notice?
Who discovered this? Do we know?
What are dangers of this product? Is it poisonous?
Why would it be important to know about this?
How do scientists use this?
Other questions….your own…

2. Hypothesis If we place ____________________
in _________________ g of sodium polyacrylate,
then ________________________ will be absorbed
because _________________________________________________________________________.

3. Materials 3 400 mL beakers Graduated cylinder Spoon
Sodium polyacrylate
balance
Item to test

4. Procedure Place empty beaker on balance and zero it out.
Measure _____ of sodium polyacrylate and place in 400 mL beaker.
Add ______ mL of ___________to sodium polyacrylate.
Observe reaction
Flip beaker over to see if it holds.
Take mass of mixture.
If mixture holds, continue adding ____ mL of _______ to sodium polyacrylate and flipping until mixture begins to slide.
Write observations and final mass down in lab data chart.
Repeat steps 1-8, 2 more times.

5. Observation Chart
Test #
Amt of item
Final mass 1 2 3