KS3 - Mixtures and solutions lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 7 class introducing them to mixtures and solutions.
This lesson is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of AFL and independent tasks.
The lesson contains interesting links such as to George’s Marvellous Medicine and skittles!
This lesson resource is designed so it should be teachable by non-specialists.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

• Explain what is meant by the term ‘mixture’ in Chemistry
• Identify mixtures from particle diagrams
• Define the key terms ‘solution’, ‘solute’ and ‘solvent’
• Identify solutions, solvents and solutes from given examples

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task