Mixture Mix-up!

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by Linda Amundson, Karcher Middle School

Students will learn about substances and mixtures and will classify various materials accordingly. Students will also create a plan to seperate a mixture mishap of a major packaging company to increase profit. Students will present their experiment and plan to the company CEO for approval.

Teacher Introduction

 

Students will increase their knowledge of the types of substances and mixtures and apply their knowledge to a separation experiment. Students will need to separate a mixture into its four parts and create a proposal to a packaging company CEO as to how the company can retain their original four products from a mixture mishap. The students must use important vocabulary relating to substances and mixtures to make their proposal convincing.