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Curated OER

Exploring the Scientific Method: Separation of a Complex Mixture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in teams to use the scientific method to separate complex mixtures into pure components.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Working with Solutions

For Students 10th - 12th
In this solutions worksheet, students review how molarity is calculated and how to prepare a dilute solution. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Cooking with the Whole Cup

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Whoops! Travis accidentally put too much butter into the recipe. Your bakers must find out how to alter the recipe to accommodate different changes by using unit rates and ratios . The activity has multiple parts and calculations with...
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Activity
Royal Society of Chemistry

Some Reactions of Carbon Dioxide—Microscale Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Precipitation reactions are always interesting. How about one that forms a precipitate using a gas? Chemists of any age will enjoy this twist on a standard solubility lab. Partners observe the lack of interaction between sodium hydroxide...
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Curated OER

Quinoa Pasta 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A mixture of quinoa and corn is for dinner in this collaborative task that sets up nicely as a system of linear equations. Your supper guests discuss numerical precision and percentages as they formulate a plan of how to solve the problem.
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Curated OER

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

For Students 7th
In this thousands word problems worksheet, 7th graders solve and complete 6 different word problems that include the thousands place. First, they read each story and draw a picture to determine the solutions to each problem. Then,...
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Curated OER

Goofy Putty

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners examine mixtures and solution properties by making a borax polymer. In this chemical reactions lesson, students make a putty out of borax solution mixed to create a polymer.
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Organizer
Curated OER

What Properties Do Solutions Have?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this solutions worksheet, students will write down two properties that solutions have and then will come up with a conclusion about solutions based on their facts.
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Cornell University

Unknown Powders

For Students 3rd - 6th
Create a little scientific magic within your classroom! Learners mix powders and liquids and identify chemical reactions. Based on the reactions, individuals determine the identity of various powders.
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Curated OER

Quinoa Pasta 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners discover that a system of linear equations models this mixture of quinoa and corn in a collaborative task. Your learners receive all the relevant information in this second of three variants of tasks that ask them to find the...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Protein Folding

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Long strings of amino acids fold themselves into stable peptides. The simulation allows scholars to observe the process in multiple ways. Using hydrophobic, hydrophilic, or a combination of proteins in three different solutions, the...
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Beyond Benign

Urine Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Urine can tell us a lot about what is happening in our bodies. In a hands-on activity, scholars administer pH, glucose, ketone, and protein tests to a sample of "urine" solution made from household ingredients. Their results lead them to...
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Curated OER

Solubility

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this solubility worksheet, students calculate the final concentrations of the ions involved in a chemical mixture. Students calculate the solubility of different compounds. This worksheet has 13 problems to solve.
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Curated OER

The Separation Problem

For Students 4th - 6th
In this mixture separation instructional activity learners problem solve a variety of ways to separate mixtures. After generating solution ideas to separating mixtures of solids prompts on the one page sheet students are prompted to...
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Curated OER

Classification of Changes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this classification of changes worksheet, students identify each example as either chemical or physical changes. Students also classify other examples as either element, compound, solution, colloid, or suspensions. In the other...
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Curated OER

Solids and Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate mixtures made of water and familiar solid materials. They observe and discuss the changes that occur immediately and set the mixtures aside for a day. Finally, students observe the mixtures, note changes, and graph...
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Curated OER

Water Unit

For Students 7th - 12th
In this water worksheet, students review the properties of water including the density, boiling point, and evaporation. Students define mixture, solute, and solvent. This worksheet has 22 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Lip Balm Chemistry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore density, mixture and solutions in a reaction. In this chemistry lesson, students create their own chap-stick using ingredients they analyze for their chemical contents. They discuss measuring skills, melting points and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Quinoa Pasta 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Here is a great opportunity to introduce your mathematicians to a food they may never have heard of, quinoa. It may help to show a short video on quinoa, or make some quinoa for the class to try. Once they get over how to say quinoa,...
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Curated OER

Solutions

For Students Higher Ed
In this solutions worksheet, students determine the pH or molar solubility of different solutions. Students state is the mixture given forms a buffer. This worksheet has 20 problems to solve.
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Curated OER

It's a Mixed Up World!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the importance of applying the scientific knowledge of elements, mixtures, and compounds to manufacture consumer goods and conduct civil operations, such as water purification. They also practice categorizing...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mixtures

For Students 7th - 12th
In this mixtures pre-lab worksheet, learners compare and contrast suspensions and colloids and solutions and colloids. Students describe the Tyndall effect. This worksheet has 10 short answer questions.
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Cornell University

Nano Interactions

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Tiny particles can provide big learning opportunities! Middle school scientists explore the world of nanoparticles through reading, discussion, and experiment. Collaborative groups first apply nanotechnology to determine water hardness....
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Curated OER

Parts-Per-Million Concentration Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop a comprehension of parts per million as a concept. They work in teams to create successive dilutions of a solution to reach a parts-per-million concentration. Students list what they think the atmosphere is made of. They...

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