Matter, Mixtures and Solutions, Separating Mixtures - 3 Fully Resourced Lessons Plus 12 Game Compendium

Three comprehensive and fully resourced lessons on particle (kinetic) theory of matter, the composition and properties of mixtures and separating mixtures for middle school plus a compendium of twelve games

Each teaching pack contains between thirteen and eighteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built into the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.

To consolidate learning, there are three sets of enjoyable and challenging games which can be played after each lesson is taught with the content of each set of three games being closely related to the content of one of the lesson topics.

• Find the pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard/Snap.

At the end of the module, to further reinforce learning or for test prep, there are another three enjoyable and challenging games which test facts taught throughout the complete module.

• Smart board bingo
• Board game
• 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

What’s Included

Particle Theory

• Fully resourced lesson
• Find the pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard/Snap

Mixtures and Solutions

• Fully resourced lesson
• Find the pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard/Snap

Separating Mixtures

• Fully resourced lesson
• Find the pair
• Dominoes
• Wildcard/Snap

End of Module/ Test Prep

• Smart board bingo
• Board game
• Escape room

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