The Alginate Worm Connection Kit

or When Algy Meets Calcium
Make terrific, colorific wormy gel and introduce chemical changes in elementary grades. Make a calcium chloride solution, squirt in a little sodium alginate solution and pull up beautiful gels. Add lemon juice or baking soda to the alginate solution and the red cabbage juice indicator will change colors and you can make different colored "worms".

Standards and Concepts: scientific method - hypothesis, investigation, control, variable, models, solutions - solubility, use of pipets, pH indicators, acid-base reaction, states of matter, gels

 Contains: 1 liter of color changing sodium alginate solution ("Algy"), 25 grams calcium chloride ("Calcy"), 5 cups, 5 forks, 5 droppers, small scoop, plastic tub, MSDS, standards, teacher notes, and laminated instructions.
Alginate Worm Connection Kit

#2125

$18.00
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Recommended for age 5 and up with adult supervision.
Alginate Worm Refill
Contains: 1 liter of "Algy" and 25 grams of "Calcy"
Alginate Worm Refill

#2126

$12.00
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"Algy" Solution

Contains: 1 liter of "Algy" -color changing sodium alginate solution.
"Algy" Solution

#2127

$10.00
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"Calcy" - calcium chloride
Contains: 25 grams

calcium chloride
"Calcy"

#2128

$2.00
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Sodium alginate solution. Very pale yellow solution, does not have the color changing red cabbage extract.
Contains: 1 liter of sodium alginate solution
Alginate Solution

#2129

$10.00
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Sodium alginate powder. Make your own alginate solution. Sodium alginate is very hard to dissolve, notes included.
100 grams sodium alginate powder
Sodium Alginate

#2130

$10.00
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