"Separating A Mixture" Procedure

Follow the procedure:

1. Put on goggles and make sure hair is tied back, no long sleeves, no sweaters, no hats, etc.

2. There are two toothpicks inside the cup solution. Remove both toothpicks using the plastic spoon provided.

3. Take out the big rock as well, using the plastic spoons.

4. Pressing the spoon onto the rocks and sand to prevent any substances to get into the water, pour the water into a graduated cylinder.

5. Using the filter paper provided, fold it into a cone shape and place it inside a funnel. 

*Make sure to hold the filter paper cone because it might pop out from the funnel*

6. Drain the water from the cylinder through the funnel and into a beaker. Wait for the water to filter out.

7. Plug in the hot plate. When it has heated, place the beaker onto the hot plate and wait for the water to boil.

8. While the water is heating, use the magnet given and take out the iron. 

9. When the water has boiled unplug the hot plate and the water should evaporate. When it has evaporated, use the magnifying glass to identify the salt particles.

10. Using the plastic spoon, remove the small pebbles.

11. Remove the sand also using the plastic spoon.

7 Substances Inside the Heterogeneous/ Homogeneous Mixture:

1. Water

2. Salt

3. Small Pebbles

4. Big Rock

5. Iron

6. Sand

7. Two Toothpicks

Sources:

http://faculty.sdmiramar.edu/fgarces/zCourse/All_Year/Ch100_MM/aMy_FilesLab/06LbMM_Expt/Ex04_SepTernMix/SepTernMix_OL.html

Extra Credit Response

   Respond to the following quote:
             "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"

     First of all, I believe this quote has a meaning that everyone can connect to. I believe the quote means that having an education is a very important concept, thus making it a key that most people might not have. Education is very important though many students do not notice it. It will help you in the future of being a parent, getting a job, or just living throughout life. Having an education is something many people did not have back then. 
     A key is something that people have for specific things, and so not all people have it for the same thing. An education is a key that everyone can have, either meaning as a literal key or meaning as a key to help with in life. This then opens the discussion of freedom. Freedom is also another thing many people did not have back then. This includes freedom of religion, speech, press, and everyday human right freedoms. So freedom is something big and something gold, and so if there was a golden door of freedom, then education would be one of the keys needed to unlock one of its many locks.
     Education, as I said before, is something many people back then did not have. If you were a woman, you didn't have a full education and if you made it to college, you were rich. However, if you were a slave you had no education. Being a woman or a slave back then would not give you the right or the freedom to be educated.
     Being educated would make others consider you smart or even intelligent. So education itself is also gold. It gives us knowledge; the knowledge to do things with confidence because we know we understand. And so with education come more choices and therefore more freedom to pursue one's life ambition.


Sources:
http://www.123rf.com/photo_3213693_education-is-the-key-written-on-a-chalkboard.html