In class my group started a new science unit, it is mixtures, solutions and compounds. On Wednesday and Thursday May 22nd and 23rd my science group and I did some science activities.
The first thing we did was read about Mixtures Solutions and compounds. A mixture is a combination of two or more substances, for example a salad is a mixture. A solution is a mixture in which one solution dissolves in another, for example lemonade is a solution. A compound is made up of molecules and atoms of different elements.
After that we did an activity called create it. For that station we got a cup of beads with letters on it in different colors. the first thing we had to do was sort them by color. After we sorted them by color we had to write down the physical property’s of the beads. After we wrote down the physical property’s we had to mix them back together. We were asked the question did the physical property’s change. They didn’t because it was the same beads as before.
The next station my group and I did was called sort it. In that station we were giving cards that said a mixture, solution or compound we had to sort it on a sheet of paper.
After that we did a station called match it. In that station there were cards with a definition and a card that matched the definition.after we matched the cards we had to write the definition on our worksheet.
The next thing we did was a station called explain it. We were given a page to write on and a lemonade recipe. We had to make observations on the page and then we had to answer the question why is lemonade a solution not a compound.
The final station that we did was watching a video. The video was about elements and compounds. after we watched the video we had to write down vocabulary from the video, then we had to take a test about what we watched.
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