Mixtures & Solutions Activities

I’m not currently in the classroom, but I remember spending hours looking for activities for our next unit. And I also remember being overwhelmed because of everything on my plate. So I’m here to help you out!

I’m going to do these “round up” blog posts where I find engaging activities on a concept for you to use in your classroom. I’ll do the work for you!

My first round up is on mixtures and solutions. I have eight activities for you to use in your classroom. Here ya go!

• Create a trail mix mixture. Mrs. Thomas had her students bring in the materials for the trail mix, and they made it together in class. How fun would that be!

• Make a foldable on mixtures and solutions. I love foldables because they are so versatile. Here’s one with four flaps, two of them on mixtures and two on solutions. You can include examples, pictures, a definition, how to tell the difference between the two, tools used to separate, and how to separate.

• Give students different pictures of mixtures and solutions and sort them. They could also look for pictures of mixtures and solutions out of magazines and sort them. I then have my students explain why each is a mixture or solution.

• Scoot game – Scoot games are great for getting your students out of their seat and moving around the classroom. I created this SCOOT GAME to have all open-ended questions with critical thinking. I wanted to get my students REALLY thinking.

• Song – I’m one of those cornball teachers…you know the ones who create corny songs to help them teach a concept. Here is a song I made up for teaching mixtures and solutions. You can download it for free HERE!

• Choice board – I love using choice boards in my classroom because they provide choice and differentiation. HERE is my choice board on mixtures and solutions. There are 9 activities for students to choose from.

• Create your own sort – Instead of giving students ready-made sorting cards of mixtures and solutions have your students make their own mixtures and solutions sorting picture cards and switch with a partner to sort. Two easy formative assessments for you right there!

• Two Walls – One wall is “mixtures” and one wall is “solutions”. Call out either a mixture or solution and when you say “GO” students go to the “mixtures” wall if they think it is a mixture and the “solutions” wall if they think it is a solution. Then have students turn to a partner and explain why it is a mixture or a solution.