Where does salt come from?

Where does salt come from?
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These artists are carving hard blocks of salt! Think like an inventor. What’s something useful that you could make from blocks of salt?
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This hotel is built entirely from blocks of salt! The hotel has a rule: Do not lick the walls!
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Suppose you spilled some salt. You could clean it up...or think like an artist. How could you use that salt to make a work of art?
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People can “draw” with salt by moving it with their fingers or by squirting it out of bottles. Do you see any problems with this art?
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This beautiful salt painting can be wiped out by a wave of a hand or a puff of wind. Even though the art lasts for just a little while...
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...artists keep making amazing salt art—like these pictures of food made with colored salt. It looks real…until it slides off the plate!
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In some underground mines, the salt is pink. Artists carve blocks of this salt into shapes: a turtle, a horse head, a human head...
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This is the same turtle…but the salt can look pink or green or blue. What is going on here? Do you have any ideas?
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Artists can hollow out the salt and put light bulbs inside. A blue light bulb makes the pink salt look blue; a green one turns it green!
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People dig deep underground to get salt. When they take out the salt, an enormous cave is left. What could you do with this cave?
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People made this enormous salt mine special. As they dug out salt, they carved statues from the salt and made elegant rooms.
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This is the saltiest sea on earth. What do you think would happen if you dunked a dress into this sea and left it there for a long time?
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An Israeli artist tried this experiment. Salt formed sparkling crystals on the cloth! You can do this with anything, even a bike!
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You can also bend string or wire into shapes and dip them in the saltiest sea. People even do this at home using super salty water!
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Lesson narration:
English Spanish

Overview

In this mini-lesson, students explore different places that salt can be found, and how salt came to be there.

Exploration

5 mins

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Writing

Writing

Here are some writing prompts to help students reflect on the mini-lesson. Feel free to copy and paste them into an assignment.

  1. Where does salt come from?
  2. What did this lesson make you curious about? What other questions do you have about salt?

Activity

Activity

Bonus Activity: How salty is ocean water? Add one teaspoon of salt to 1 1/4 cups of water. Stir until the salt disappears. Put a drop of the salty water on your tongue. It will taste just as salty as ocean water! Leave the salty water in a warm spot until all the water dries up. What is left behind?
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