Resource Guide
Internet
Salt Institute Web Site Address: http://www.saltinstitute.org (with links to salt producers, associations and government agencies and other information sources)
Detroit Salt's teacher resource page
Mr. Bloch's Salt Archive "Salt Made the World Go Round"
National Teacher Training Institute lesson plan "The Salt of Life"
The Science Center (science education materials on chlorine chemistry)
Salt of the Earth (Illinois Institute of Technology education curriculum)
Chemistry: Salts
NaCl: Chlorine Compound of the Month
Chemistry Coach (Acids, Bases and Salts) M.I.T. lecture notes
Earth and water; water and saltwater
Society for Sedimentary Geology has a K-12 Earth Science module online which includes salt.Erosion modeled with rock salt
Salt techtonics page
Grow your own salt crystals ( 1 2 3 4 5 )
Growing a crystal garden
Understand saltwater incursion in seashore coastal areas
Take a virtual tour of a salt marsh
Page on dissolving salt
Why does salt dissolve in water but not in gasoline?
Why salt melts ice ( 1 2 3 4 )
Fun with Ice: Really Cool Experiments (Rohm and Haas)
Why do you need salt to make ice cream? (Science on the Brain video)
Freezing of Pure and Salt Water
How salt affects the boiling point of water
Density of freshwater versus salt water
Rainbow straws (salt density)
Is salt water denser than fresh water? Which is heavier, salt water or fresh water? (click on "experiments")
A related activity on ice balloons (teachers, also see this)
Use salt to show that air contains water
More on density
Separating material mixtures (chemistry)
Salt is a compound (chemistry)
Similar (chemistry)
What are elements and compounds? (chemistry)
Salinity of the oceans of the world
Toxicity testing in brine shrimp
Ion-exchange at work
The difference between crocodiles and alligators: salt lingual glands
Test your taste buds with sugar and salt
Salt destroys bacteria on a kitchen cutting board
The Science of Mummies and Mummification
History: The Newfoundland Salt Fisheries ( 1 2 3 4 )
History: Trading Salt for Gold
Economics: Why Use Money? Getting What we Need
Historical glimpse of salt trading in Nepal
Mineral Information Institute has teacher instruction materials
General page of science-related links for students
Science Fair ideas
Man does not live by science alone -- see this on saltwater painting (come to think about it, evaporation IS science)
Videos
"Salt: The Essence of Life," Salt Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, 1995.
"Trace Mineral Salt: It Doesn't Cost - It
Pays," Salt Institute, Alexandria, VA, 1995.Books
Kaufman, Dale W., Sodium Chloride:: The Production and Properties of Salt and Brine, Reinhold
Publishing, Company, New York, 1960.
Multhauf, R.P., Neptune's GALA History of Common Salt. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1955.
Brochures*
Major Salt Deposits and Dry Salt Production Sites in North America,
(Salt Institute, Alexandria,VA).Facts About Salt, (Salt Institute, Alexandria, VA).
Straight Talk about Dietary Salt/Sodium for a Healthy Lifestyle, (Salt Institute, Alexandria, VA), 1995.
Deicing Salt Facts: A Quick Reference, (Salt Institute, Alexandria, VA), 1994.
Softened Water Saves for Homes, (Salt Institute, Alexandria, VA), 1982.
The Public's Right to Wintertime Traffic Safety, (American Public Works Association, Kansas City, MO).
Studies/Reports
Berger, Larry L., Ph.D. "Salt and Trace Minerals for Livestock,
Poultry and Other Animals," Salt
Institute, Alexandria, VA, 1992.
Benefits and Costs in the Use of Salt to Deice Highways, Institute for Safety Analysis, Washington DC, 1976.
Accident Analysis of Ice Control Operations, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wl, September 1992.
Magazine Articles
Young, Gordon. "The Essence of Life: Salt" National
Geographic Society, (September, 1977):
381 - 401.
* Single copies are free. For additional copies and prices contact the Salt Institute at 703-549-4648.