Lesson 16 of 84 · Matter
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenSeparating a Mixture
Separating a Mixture.
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
If it bubbles, something invisible is escaping.
Mind = Blown
🧪 If you could remove all the empty space from atoms, the entire human race would fit in a sugar cube.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: will the fizz be loud, soft, or none at all?
What You'll Learn
A mixture can sometimes be separated. You can pick out the raisins from trail mix!
Key Words
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Steps
Read about Matter with a partner or grown-up.
Test 5 objects from your house: put each one in water. Make a chart of which sink and which float.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What are the three states of matter?
Where you see this in real life
This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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