Hello and happy Thursday!
It was quite a packed day as my spectacular students completed their FIRST lab of the year! Congratulations to them for completing that task!
I would say our lab was quite successful today. Students completed 5 of 6 stations (one station – filtration – was done as a demo at the front of the room).
Here’s a list of the stations we completed:
Station 1: Magnetic Separation
Station 2: Density
Station 3: Mechanical Separation
Station 4: Sifting
Station 5: Filtration (Demo by Mrs. Barton)
Station 6: Chromatography
We began the day by making a foldable lab booklet to complete as students rotated to each station. That piece can be found here: Mixtures Lab – Foldable & Synthesis Slips
Next they glued in their pre-lab questions (completed yesterday in-class/homework) on page 11. That worksheet can be found here:Mixtures and Separation Pre-Lab Questions
Finally they glued in lab synthesis questions and completed those after the lab was complete. That document can be found above with the Mixtures Lab Foldable & Synthesis Slips document.
Our Interactive Notebook spread for today should look like this:
Here are a few pictures of my students’ separating skills!
Don’t forget! Tomorrow we will take Quiz 1.3 on heterogeneous mixtures and parts of an element square. ALSO – if you haven’t yet taken Quiz 1.2 Form B, that must be completed by Monday 9/23.
See you tomorrow!
Meredith is a National Board Certified Teacher and has been teaching middle grades science for over a decade. She enjoys all science curricula but life sciences are her passion. She loves creativity and organization and feels at her best in the classroom when she can infuse these aspects into her lessons to help set up her students for success.
For this lab were there instructions, or did you have students decide how to separate the mixtures themselves?
For this lab were there instructions, or did you have students decide how to separate the mixtures themselves?