Separating Mixtures - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Wildcard and Snap Card Games

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on separating mixtures including evaporation, distillation, fractional distillation, filtration and chromatography for middle school plus a pack of cards for enjoyable and challenging games of wildcard or snap.

The teaching pack contains 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 i to 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.

The game is closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning.

What’s Covered
• The composition and physical properties of mixtures
• Evaporation to dryness and crystallisation
• Distillation
• Fractional distillation
• Filtration
• Chromatography

What’s Included

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz and all answers to classwork and homework)
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable (students use to make their own notes)
• Cut-and-stick activity pupil uses to make their own notes)
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework (x3) plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• 12 Taboo cards
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Game

• 84 playing cards
• Animated PowerPoint with instructions for playing wildcard and snap

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