Matter, Mixtures, Solutions and Separating Mixtures - 12 Game Compendium

A compendium of twelve, enjoyable and challenging games on kinetic theory of matter (particle theory), mixtures and solutions and separating mixtures. Each game is fully resourced, suitable for all abilities, comes with full instructions and is easy to run.

Games Include:

Matter

• Find the Pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard & Snap

Mixtures

• Find the Pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard & Snap

Separating Mixtures

• Find the Pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard & Snap

Matter, Mixtures and Separating Mixtures

• Smart Board Bingo
• Board Game
• Save the School Guinea Pig Escape Room

What’s Covered

• Three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas.
• Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases.
• Properties of solids, liquids and gases in terms of the arrangement of their particles.
• Change of state including sublimation.
• Pressure in gases and the effect of increasing the number of particles and temperature and decreasing volume.
• Diffusion.
• Elements and compounds are pure substance and mixtures are not.
• Meaning of the terms solute, solvent, solution, soluble and insoluble.
• Particle theory to explain why stirring, temperature and particle size affect the rate of dissolving.
• Particle theory to explain dissolving, suspensions and saturated solutions.
• Extracting information from solubility curves.
• The composition and physical properties of mixtures
• Evaporation to dryness and crystallisation
• Distillation
• Fractional distillation
• Filtration
• Chromatography

This versatile pack can be used to reinforce knowledge at the end of the topic or for revision. Many of the games could be used for cover lessons, even when taken by a non-specialist as they come with a hard-copy or PowerPoint of the answers. It is also the ideal end of term/year pack.

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