Learn About Salt!

Salt Academy - A Special Opportunity for K-8 students

General Information

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/pic21/pic21_2.html History of salt mining in Reno County and diagram of the Hutchinson Salt Member:  Kansas Geological Survey

http://www.saltinstitute.org The best site for overall salt information

http://www.mortonsalt.com/ This site contains salt information from
America’s largest table salt producer

http://www.mortonsalt.com/saltfacts/index.html

Salt: A World History by  Mark Kurlansky, Penguin Group, 2003.

An epic history of salt.

http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=arcadia&Product_Code=9780738561806&Product_Count=&Category_Code=          The Carey Salt Mine by Barbara Ulrich

http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Ru-Sp/Salt.html Salt Chemistry

http://www.saltinstitute.org/Uses-benefits Why salt is important

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/ Kansas Geological Survey

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/pic21/pic21_1.html Map of Salt in Kansas from Kansas Geological Survey

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/214/03_salt.html Salt dissolution maps: Kansas

https://www.uvsinc.com/ Underground Vaults and Storage

Curriculum/Experiments

General:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/road-salt.htm An explanation of how salt melts ice on roads.

http://chemistry.about.com/lr/salt/240934/2/ Projects and Experiments

http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/salt.html How do animals survive in icy oceans?

http://www.ehow.com/how_4488164_perform-science-experiments-using-salt.html Simple experiments using salt

http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/volcano.html Make a salt volcano

Elementary:

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/childrens-science-activities/printable/6792.html

Growing salt crystal experiment for students Grades 1-5

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/demonstrations/a/aa022204a.htm

Cleaning pennies with salt and vinegar

Secondary

http://www.saltinstitute.org/Education-Center/High-school-teachers

This is a high school/interdisciplinary curriculum about salt.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_makerock.html Make Sedimentary rock: grades 5-9

http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/electro/electro.htm experiments in electro-chemistry

Salt Museums/ Mines of the World

http://www.undergroundmuseum.org The Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson, Kansas

http://www.krakow-info.com/wielicz.htm Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow, Poland

http://www.detroitsalt.com/home.htm Detroit, Michigan

http://www.mines.ch/en Bex,  (Bay)  Switzerland

http://www.berchtesgaden.de/en/salt-mine-berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden, Germany

Additional Related Topics:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/permian/permian.html The Permian Period

http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Permian/Permian.htm Periods Epochs and Ages

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/permian.html Includes the Permian Extinction

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/rocks/create/sediment.htm How Sedimentary rocks are formed

http://geology.com/rocks/sedimentary-rocks.shtml Pictures of Sedimentary rocks

http://www.galleries.com/minerals/halides/sylvite/sylvite.htm

Sylvite: a type of evaporite rock found in the salt deposit