•What common properties do solutions

have?
•Are solutions always liquid?
•Will all solids dissolve in water?
•How fast do solids dissolve in water?
 ACTIVITY # 3
WHAT SOLUTIONS DO YOU FIND IN YOUR
HOME?
OBJECTIVES:
After performing this activity, you should be able to:
1. Describe the observable characteristics or properties
of common solutions found at home or in stores; and
2. Present the data gathered in table form to show
the different properties of common solutions.
 PROCEDURE:
1. With your group mates, write the names of the products or items
brought from home and describe the characteristics of each of
these products. You may make a table similar to Table 1.
(Products at Home or Stores and Their Characteristics)

Products Found at Characteristics

Home or in Stores
2. As you observe each product, describe the products in terms of
color and appearance, odor, feel, taste (for food products) and
number of observable phase/s.
3. Based on what you have learned so far in Grade 6, which of the
products you observed are homogeneous uniform? What common
characteristics do the homogeneous mixtures in your list have?
4. Which of these products or items are solutions?
 SOLUTION
• A mixture of two or more substances that is identical
throughout Salt water is
considered a solution.
• Can be physically separated How can it be
• Composed of solutes and solvents physically separated?

the substance in the smallest the substance in the larger

amount and the one that amount that dissolves the
dissolves in the solvent solute

Iced Tea Mix Iced Tea Water

(solute) (solution) (solvent)

Colloids (milk, fog, jello) are considered solutions

MAKING SOLUTIONS: SOLUTES AND SOLVENTS
• When you mix two substances
and they form a solution, you say
that one substance dissolves in
the other substance.
 A SOLUTION is not always a liquid; it can be solid,
liquid or gas. In addition, solutions may either be found
in nature or are manufactured.

NATURALLY OCCURING SOLUTIONS

Many materials in nature can be used efficiently only
when these are in the for of solutions.
• SEAWATER – solution having a higher percentage of
salt and minerals.
• RAINWATER – solution containing dissolved gases
like oxygen and carbon dioxide.
MANUFACTURED AND PROCESSED SOLUTIONS
Many materials in nature can be used efficiently only
when these are in the for of solutions.
• VINEGAR – usually contains 5% acetic acid in water.
• METAL ALLOY – is a solid solution made up of two
or more metals.
• BRASS – is an alloy of copper and zinc.
• STEEL – is an alloy made up of iron and carbon.
• CAST IRON – is made up of carbon, silicon and
iron and is chiefly used in cook wares and bridge
constructions.