Do you teach upper elementary? Teaching your students about mixtures, including solutions? You’ll love this list with 7 of my FAVORITE teaching tools.
Let’s start with a big list of different mixtures students can explore.
2. ☀️ Make a Solar Still
Use for students at home OR with your class at school. This resource will guide you through the construction of a simple solar still. Students will learn practical uses for separating mixtures into their components.
Free Download: Family Science
3. 📓 Notebook Templates
Here’s a peek at my notebook templates for mixtures. We have: mixtures, solutions, separating mixtures, and solvents & solutes.
See notebook templates on TpT: Science Notebook
4. 🥗 2nd & 3rd Labs: Labs in a Snap
Labs in a Snap is designed to help teachers easily incorporate THREE hands-on activities for mixtures with young scientists.
Simple. Meaningful. Ready to use!
See it on TpT: Mixtures Labs in as Snap
5. 🍯 4th & 5th Labs: Observation Stations
“Observation stations have been one of the best investments I have made on TpT. One of the skills my students have the greatest deficit in is making scientific observations and transferring that to sentences and communicating those observations.”
See it on TpT: Mixtures Observation Stations
6. 🖥 Go Digital with Inquiry
Digital Inquiry and Digital Inquiry Jr. are designed to help students synthesize information they collect to form a solid understanding of mixtures.
3rd Grade: Digital Inquiry Jr: Mixtures
4th & 5th Grade: Digital Inquiry: Mixtures
7. 🏝 Beaches
Explore mixtures, solutions, and the conservation of matter in this unit focused on beaches. Follow the 5E Model, incorporating CER, hands-on labs, reading, science notebooks, vocabulary, a quiz, and an open-response prompt.
See it on TPT: Beaches Phenomena-Based Science Mini-Unit
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This is my first year homeschooling my daughter. She is in eighth grade and I really had no clue what I was doing when I started. She is now wanting more hands on instead of online classes with science and this is a great help! Thank you so much for these posts!!!