Chemistry Lessons | Mixtures and Separation Techniques | Paper and Digital

Learn about solutions, suspensions, and emulsions, and how they are separated with this collection of experiments, drawing activities, and lessons as part of your classroom chemistry unit. Everything you need is included except for some materials to experiment with (listed below).

This resource is part of our Chemistry Unit.

This hands-on resource includes:

• three complete lesson plans. They come with everything you need to experiment with solutions, suspensions and emulsions (and how to separate them) with the exception of actual physical materials which are listed below.
• mixture topics: homogeneous mixtures, heterogeneous mixtures, suspensions, solutions, emulsions, solutes, solvents, saturation, dissolving, soluble and insoluble.
• separating methods: air (wind), water, magnets, filters, evaporation, sieves, decanting, and distillation.
• student pages and handouts.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• photographs of student examples.
• a set of task cards that are in colour, ink-saving, and Google Slides.
• several short quizzes to assess the understanding of vocabulary from these lessons.
• a digital version of all the student pages. This version has loose text which can be read by your assistive technology.

To do the experiments you will need several materials listed in the images.

This resource supports:

• any basic chemistry unit.

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