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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...
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Curated OER

Separating Mixtures Worksheet #2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
For 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...
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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. For this case, you will prepare a mixture of three different food colorings for them to experiment with. A...
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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...
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LABScI

The Separation Lab: Candy Colors

For Students 9th - 12th
There's no better motivator than candy! An engaging activity has pupils explore methods for separating mixtures. A two-part lab first explores methods of separation based on size and magnetism. The second activity introduces learners to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Curated OER

Lipstick Chromatography/Ink Chromatography

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Junior crime scene investigators are instructed in two different chromatography exercises. For female suspects, they separate and compare lipstick pigments. For male suspects, they separate and compare ink samples. A data sheet is...
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Olomana School

Mixtures and Solutions: Paper Chromatography Experiment

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Why does some ink bleed through paper, and other ink doesn't? Practice some paper chromatography to separate the colors from a pen with an interactive experiment for middle and high schoolers. Learners use a variety of solutions to track...
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Curated OER

Separation of a Complex Mixture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners develop a method to separate different types of mixtures. In this chemistry lesson, students model the steps in the scientific method. They perform the experiment and analyze data.
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Curated OER

Chromatography - Chemical Separation of Colors

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the scientific method as they separate the colors used in ink. In this chromatography lesson, the teacher introduces students to how chromatography is used in several careers, then students perform an experiment to see...
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Curated OER

Simulating Mixture Problems with Colored Beads

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

Mixtures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with solutions.  In this mixtures and solutions science lesson plan, students work in groups of three to perform an experiment. Students place a sugar cube in three glasses, and observe and record the different rates...
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Curated OER

Chromatographic Separation of Methylene Blue and Sodium Fluorescein

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students determine the best solvent system for separating a methylene blue/sodium fluorescein mixture by thin layer chromatography. They conduct an initial TLC separation using ethanol and a different solvent mixture and analyze the data...
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Curated OER

#16 Separation Science Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students in this inquiry-based experiment, put in the role of a method development chemist. The scenario they are given is that a train wreck has occurred resulting in a chemical spill. Students are told that the spill mixture consists...
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Curated OER

In the Mix

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct a water filter. In this engineering lesson, students discover how to construct a water filtration system. Students work in groups to sort tools by their properties. Students analyze and construct a water filtration...
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Curated OER

Mixtures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners differentiate the two types of mixtures. In this chemistry lesson, students create their own mixture and classify them according to their type. They simulate steel production with the help of a guest speaker.
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Curated OER

Mixtures are Exciting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collaborate with other classmates to classify and create mixtures made of two or more substances. In this mixture lesson, 5th graders create solid-solid, liquid-solid, and liquid-liquid mixtures. Students discuss with the...
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Curated OER

What Are Mixtures And Solutions?

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore mixtures and solutions. In this chemistry lesson plan, students will add different ingredients to jars in order to classify them as mixtures or solutions. There is also a nail balancing activity that can be done at home.
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Curated OER

I'm All Mixed Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle school scientists compare and contrast heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures. They differentiate solutions, colloids, and suspensions by examining samples of each. Note that the bulk of the lesson plan directs you how to...
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Curated OER

Structure of Matter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, distinguish between mixtures, solutions and suspensions.
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Curated OER

Chromatography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study about chromatography, a process used to separate mixtures.
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Curated OER

The Electric Sieve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine different mixtures and how they can be separated.  In this electric sieve instructional activity students complete an activity that allows them to separate mixtures.

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