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Free lesson plans and resources for grades 5-8 by Liz Belasic (Liz LaRosa)

Element, Compound, or Mixture? Identify & Sort

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Materials:

• Google Slides (Public Link) – answers will pop up as you advance the slides.
  • For enrichment, in notes section, you can ask students if the mixtures are element mixtures, compound mixtures, or an element & compound mixture.
  • You can also ask students what types of bonds are shown in the diagrams: Ionic, Covalent, or Metallic.
  • Print out – 4 slides per page Element, Compound, or Mixture – Handout (1)
  • Print out – 2 slides per page Element, Compound, or Mixture – Handout (2)
  • 6 slides per page Element, Compound, or Mixture – Handout (3)

  Different ways to use this activity:

  1. Vocabulary reinforcement
  2. Students can review the slides independently as added practice and self check.
  3. This can be a guided mini-lesson for a whole class to reinforce the concept.
  4. Students can work in pairs to sort the cards into the 3 different groups, then discuss the answers as a class. Challenge – categorize the mixtures.
  5. Give each student one of the larger cards and have them do the activity “Quiz, Quiz, Trade“

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