Mixtures

• Show Video Clip 1: The SOLUTIONS Song – Mr. Edmonds – Rock with Journey “Don’t Stop Believing” music theme! [3:53 min.].

• Greet the learners.
• Tell the learners that they had seen the video about mixtures
• Inform them that they will learn about the physical methods that can be used to separate mixtures.
• Remind them about waste material that can be separated [covered in previous topic].

• Find out what they can remember about recycling materials.
• Ask them the following questions:
  • Is it good to recycle materials?
  • Which materials can be recycled at school?
  • What can be done with the recycled materials?
• In this topic the different methods will be discovered to separate mixtures.
• The teacher gives the learners different materials to separate.

• The learners work in groups [6 – 8].

Each group gets different materials to separate, e.g. beans and rice; screws and nuts; different colour geometrical shapes; [any other suitable types of materials].

• Ask them the following questions about the methods that are used to separate mixtures in the kitchen:
  • Egg white for fridge tarts or baking.
  • Different fruit for fruit salad.
  • Lentils / rice / samp / sugar beans / etc. for cooking.
• Inform them that they will see examples of pure substances, liquid mixtures as well as dry substances.
• Present an overview of different mixtures by using Presentation 1: Mixtures.