This document contains the procedures and questions for an activity to differentiate between elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students will observe water, a sugar-water solution, a salt-water solution, and a sand-water mixture and answer questions about whether each is an element, compound, or mixture based on how the substances interact with each other. They will then transfer the sand-water mixture to a new cup, label it as mixture B, and answer questions about separating the components of mixture B.
This document contains the procedures and questions for an activity to differentiate between elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students will observe water, a sugar-water solution, a salt-water solution, and a sand-water mixture and answer questions about whether each is an element, compound, or mixture based on how the substances interact with each other. They will then transfer the sand-water mixture to a new cup, label it as mixture B, and answer questions about separating the components of mixture B.
This document contains the procedures and questions for an activity to differentiate between elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students will observe water, a sugar-water solution, a salt-water solution, and a sand-water mixture and answer questions about whether each is an element, compound, or mixture based on how the substances interact with each other. They will then transfer the sand-water mixture to a new cup, label it as mixture B, and answer questions about separating the components of mixture B.
This document contains the procedures and questions for an activity to differentiate between elements, compounds, and mixtures. Students will observe water, a sugar-water solution, a salt-water solution, and a sand-water mixture and answer questions about whether each is an element, compound, or mixture based on how the substances interact with each other. They will then transfer the sand-water mixture to a new cup, label it as mixture B, and answer questions about separating the components of mixture B.
Objective: 1. Describe the particle nature of elements, compounds, and mixtures. 2. Differentiate pure substances from mixtures.
Materials: 1 tablespoon of sugar 2 rubber band/string
1 tablespoon of salt 2 tablecloth/cloth 1 tablespoon of sand 2 glass/plastic cups 3 tablespoons water Marking pen
Procedures:
1. Cover the mouth of the glass with a table cloth and secure it with a rubber band (make sure it is tight enough). Then start pouring water on the setup, stop when the glass is half full of water. Q1. What do you observe as your pour the water? Is the water element, compound, or mixture? Why? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
2. Remove the rubber band and the cloth. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and stir it with the tablespoon until all the sugar is dissolved.
Q2. What happened to the sugar when you stirred the water? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Q3. A water with sugar is belongs to what group of matter – element, compound, or mixture? Why? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
3. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and then stir with the tablespoon until all salt is dissolved.
Q4. What happened when you started stirring the set up? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Q5. What classification of matter would the set up belong to? Why? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Add 1 tablespoon of sand into the set up and stir for 1 minute. Let it still for 5 minutes and observe what happens.
Q6. What do you observe in during the five minutes? List down all your observation. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Q7. In what classification of matter would most likely the set up will belong to? Why? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
5. Again, cover the mouth of the glass with a table cloth and secure it with a rubber band (make sure it is tight enough).
6. Pour the set up to another clean glass and label it as Mixture B.
