+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Teach Engineering

Properties of Mixtures vs. Solutions: Mix It Up!

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Now it becomes crystal clear why the unit is called Mixtures and Solutions. The fifth installment of a six-part unit explores mixtures and solutions. After viewing a demonstration on mixing pebbles with water, salt with water, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognition and Classification of Mixtures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Immerse your chemistry class in solutions! They melt and compare the mixtures that make up margarine, separate black ink into its component colors, distill ocean saltwater, and practice chromatography with plant pigments. There are eight...
+
Interactive3:03
Scholastic

Study Jams! Mixtures

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Mix it up at a party as Sam and Zoe discuss heterogeneous and homogenous mixtures and solutions. Follow this film by allowing your class to put together individual snack foods to make their own mixture!
+
Activity
Perkins School for the Blind

Mixtures and Solutions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Mixtures and solutions are different; one can be separated fairly easily and the other cannot. This hands-on experiment was written specifically for learners with visual impairments or blindness. They will use lemonade and trail mix to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Separating Mixtures Worksheet #2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this separating mixtures worksheet, students answer 6 questions about they ways to separate mixtures including using chromatography, using skimming, and pouring off a liquid. Students are given different fractions and their properties...
+
Lesson Plan
Royal Society of Chemistry

Separating Mixtures: How We Concentrate Natural Materials

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Have your class look at a granite specimen and describe what they see. They should note three distinct components. Discuss mixtures with them and how they might be separated, then send them to the lab to figure out how to take apart five...
+
Activity
1
1
Teach Engineering

Messin' with Mixtures

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Do you separate your trail mix before eating it? Then you've been separating mixtures your whole life! Scholars model a contaminated soil sample using trail mix and estimate the percentage of each component. They consider how to clean up...
+
Lesson Plan
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Mixtures and Nanotechnology

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
What does size have to do with it? Learners analyze different mixtures, both homogeneous and heterogeneous, to discover the properties related to the size of their particles. The activity connects these properties to those of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Marvelous Mixtures

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design an experiment in which they separate mixtures. In this mixtures lesson, 5th graders define mixtures, solutions, solutes, and solvents. They watch a video, complete worksheets, and perform an experiment to separate...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mixtures, Solutions and Matter

For Students 7th - 9th
In this mixtures, solutions and matter worksheet, students are given 12 terms and they cut out 12 definitions to match with the terms. Topics include types of mixtures, types of matter such as atoms, molecules and compounds and solutions.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simulating Mixture Problems with Colored Beads

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice creating mixtures out of colored beads.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mixtures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with solutions.  In this mixtures and solutions science instructional activity, students work in groups of three to perform an experiment. Students place a sugar cube in three glasses, and observe and record the...
+
Lesson Plan
Baylor College

How Can We Find Out What Is in Water?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using paper chromatography, water watchers discover that several substances might be dissolved even though they aren't visible. In this case, you will prepare a mixture of three different food colorings for them to experiment with. A...
+
Organizer
Curated OER

What Are Solutions And Mixtures?

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this solutions and mixtures worksheet, students will complete a Venn diagram by writing in facts about solutions, facts about mixtures, and facts that both share.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Comparing Mixtures and Solutions

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this mixtures and solutions worksheet, students complete a Venn diagram by comparing and contrasting the characteristics of mixtures and solutions.
+
Worksheet
1
1
Curated OER

Classification of Matter

For Students 9th - 12th
This is a great worksheet with an infographic to assist your students in categorizing matter into mixtures and non-mixtures. Information is given about the metric system of measurement. Your young students match 13 terms with their...
+
PPT
1
1
Curated OER

Classification of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Thirty-seven slides thoroughly shed light upon the four classes of matter: elements, compounds, mixtures, and solutions. Also covered are chemical symbols, molecules, and chemical equations. The colors and fonts chosen for the...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Chapter 12 Review, Section 1: Solutions

For Students 9th - 12th
Here is a different approach to solutions: a worksheet that has chemistry learners use words to describe them! This is an outstanding exercise that will stretch learners to show what they know. They answer questions comparing solutions,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

#13 Chromatography is a Gas: An Inquiry-Based Introduction to Gas Chromatography

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Advanced chemistry scholars read about gas chromatography as a means of separating mixtures into their components. Then they try the technique on fingernail polish remover. Detailed instructions are provided via a lab sheet for your...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chemistry 1 Practice Exam

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Thirty multiple-choice questions and their answers are provided in this resource. It was written for a general chemistry course and queries test takers on scientific notation, mixtures, chemical symbols, electric charges, Dalton's atomic...
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Baylor College

About Air

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Give your class a colorful and tasty representation of the components of the mixture that we call air. Pop a few batches of popcorn in four different colors, one to represent each gas: nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. The...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Matter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In a neat and straightforward manner, this PowerPoint delivers basic introductory information on the properties of matter, physical and chemical changes, and pure substances vs. mixtures. It also defines the states of matter. For some...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mixtures

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders experiment with mixtures. For this chemistry lesson, 6th graders determine which mixtures are considered heterogeneous, a suspension, a solution or a colloid. Students create a data sheet of what they discover.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Mixtures and Solutions Activities

For Students 6th - 10th
In this mixtures learning exercise, students access an activity on the web and record their answers from the web activity into a graphic organizer. Then students complete 2 short answer questions.

Other popular searches