Instructions: Look around and identify at least one acid and one base in your house. Foods, household products, and medicines have acidic or basic properties.

Use the Internet, your library, or science textbooks to learn more about acids and bases. Identify important characteristics, chemical properties, physical properties, pH ranges, and examples of acids and bases. Ideas for reporting the information include: make lists, write a paragraph, or use a Venn diagram. Please make sure to review the grading rubric. You will turn your work in to your instructor.

Include the following information about acids and bases in your work:

Chemical properties
Physical properties
pH
Examples around you