CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Separating Mixtures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how mixtures of solids can be separated based on observable properties of their parts such as particle size, shape, color, and magnetic attraction.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Chromatography: Selecting Variables
For this lab, young scholars will demonstrate observation skills as they design an experiment to separate colors of various water-based pens in order to learn about mixtures and solutions. Students will determine a variable to test and...
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry: Percent Compound in a Mixture
Resource contains and example problem and solution of how to compute percent compound within a mixture when given the mixture's mass and element percents.
Purple Math
Purplemath: "Mixture" Word Problems
Demonstrates, step-by-step and with examples, how to set up and solve 'mixture' word problems.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comparing and Contrasting Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a guided activity to help students compare different types of matter: atoms and molecules, elements and compounds, mixtures and solutions. It corresponds to Virginia science SOL 5.4.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mixtures
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces fifth graders to mixtures, solutions, and suspensions. Opportunities for student participation and an assessment are included.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Chemical Mixtures
Explore all about chemical mixtures on this site including solutions, alloys, suspensions, colloids, dissolving, examples, and facts.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Matter: Solutions and Mixtures
This Chem4kids tutorial teaches the basic properties of solutions.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Arrhenius Acid Base Reactions: Audio Book
Listen and learn about Arrhenius acid-base reactions while exploring mixtures, solutions, and their reactions. Examine the photos of the examples discussed in this website and discover how arrhenius acid-base reactions occur.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt
Students investigate the property dependence between concentrations and boiling point. First, they investigate the boiling point of various liquid solutions. Then they analyze data collected from the entire class to generate two boiling...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt
Students investigate the property dependence between concentrations and boiling point. In Section 1, students first investigate the boiling point of various liquid solutions. In Section 2 they analyze data collected from the entire class...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Explanation of Tyndall Effect With Labeled Diagram
Explains what the Tyndall Effect is and uses a diagram to model its impact on two different mixtures. Includes causes, examples, a look at suspensions and solutions, and an experiment to try.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Do Water Molecules Have Space Between Them?
In this chemistry lab, learners investigate whether water molecules have any space between them by filling a glass with water, and adding salt without the water overflowing. They will also experiment with the temperature of the water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Chromatography Lab
To increase students' awareness of possible invisible pollutants in drinking water sources, students perform an exciting lab requiring them to think about how solutions and mixtures exist even in unsuspecting places such as ink. They use...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Does Salt & Vinegar Have an Effect on Pennies?
During this lab students will experiment to see whether a salt and vinegar solution can clean a tarnished penny. Included on site is lesson plan and student worksheet.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Matter
"Matter is everything." So begins this comprehensive website on the physical and chemical properties of matter in its four main states: solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas. The text is large and easy-to-read. Students will enjoy the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water & Aqueous Systems
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a multitude of hands-on activities for identifying, arranging and creating sentence maps for various water and aqueous systems.
Other
English Montreal School: Chemical vs. Physical Changes: Elements vs. Compounds
A laboratory experiment where students classify matter into a homogenous mixture, heterogeneous mixture, solution, or pure substance. Also students will test for physical and chemical changes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Rate of Dissolving
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the rate of dissolving and the factors that affect it.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Matter
Students will be able to describe elements and compounds, and explain how mixtures differ from compounds.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Suspensions: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain the properties of a suspension, and describe why it is unique from other mixtures. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Suspensions."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Spotting Chromatography
A lab activity that introduces chromatography using markers, plus water and acetone as the solvents. Students will take measurements to compare the mobile and stationary phases of the inks, and find the polarity of the inks and solvents....
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: General Chemistry
A collection of video lectures from a general chemistry course taught at the University of California, Berkeley. The course teaches periodic table, chemical bonds, molecular shape, phase changes, chemical reactions, stoichiometry,...
Carnegie Mellon University
Chem Collective: Stoichiometry Bridge Course
This is a complete course in chemical stoichiometry, set in a scenario that shows how stoichiometry calculations are used in real-world situations. This course has been designed to not only help you strengthen your skills with...