Separating Mixtures Explained - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Compendium of Three Games

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on separating mixtures including filtration, evaporation, distillation, fractional distillation and chromatography for middle school plus three enjoyable yet challenging games – dominoes, find the pairs and a pack of cards for playing wildcard or snap. The games are closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning. It is enjoyable and suitable for all abilities

The teaching pack contains eighteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built in to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made.

What’s Covered

• The composition and physical properties of mixtures
• Evaporation to dryness and crystallisation
• Distillation
• Fractional distillation
• Filtration
• Chromatography

What’s Included
Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet (x3) to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• 12 Taboo cards
• Homework (x3)
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Games

• 80 dominos
• Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play.
• 84 playing cards
• Animated PowerPoint with instructions for playing wildcard and snap
• 42 question and answer cards
• Teacher’s answer sheet.
• Instruction sheet

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