Year 7, unit 1

Mixing and separating

Name: .......................................................................... Class: .......................... Date: ......................

Lesson 1: Common mixtures

Worksheet:

Common mixtures
1. Following is a list of substances. Some are mixtures and others are pure
substances. Complete the table below by writing the names of the substances in
the appropriate column. If you are unsure write it in the unsure column for
checking later.
multigrain bread, soft drink, milk, muesli, salt water, oxygen, ink, aluminium foil,
butter, chocolate, ice cream, carbon dioxide, iron, cough medicine, filtered water

Mixture Pure substance Not sure

Ice cream Oxygen
Soft drink Carbon dioxide
Salt water Aluminium foil
Ink Iron
Chocolate Filtered water
Multigrain
bread
Muesli
Butter
Cough
medicine
2. Compare your answers with others in the class and try to decide if the
substances in the ‘not sure’ column are mixtures or pure substances.
3. Write down the components for three of the substances you identified as
mixtures.

1.Salt water: water, salt

2.Chocolate: coco butter, sugar, milk, vanilla,
3.Soft drinks: fruit juice, flavouring, sugar, caffeine, carbonated water, colouring,
preservatives

4. The following substances are common household mixtures:

shampoo, tomato sauce, vegemite, cordial, washing powder, vinegar
Choose three of these and use the information on the side of the packet or bottle
to write down the three main components. (These will be the first three items
listed in the ingredients.)
Tomato sauce: tomato, salt, food acid
Shampoo: citric acid, sodium laureth sulfate, glyceryl
Washing powder: ethanol, Amine Oxide, Citric Acid.

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Mixing and separating
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5. Ice cream is a mixture. The ingredients in a typical recipe for making ice cream
are sugar, cream, milk, eggs and vanilla.
Predict what would happen to the mixture if:
a. the amount of milk was doubled?

The mixture will become to runny and not have a smooth texture

b. the amount of sugar was halved?

The ice cream wouldn’t be sweet

enough

Making sherbet

Standard recipe
Ingredient Taste of ingredient (how many teaspoons or
scoops?)

A
Strong tomato flavour 3
Tomato sauce
B
? (can’t taste it) 3
shampoo
C
Powerful coffee flavour 3
coffee
D
Acidic salty flavour 3
Salt
E
Washing ? (can’t taste it) 3
Powder

My sherbet tastes: strong and has a weird texture

I wish to make my sherbet: sweeter
The ingredient I will change is: washing powder and shampoo
Now change the amount of one ingredient per recipe to improve your sherbet. You
have 3 chances to produce the best sherbet you can.
Record your recipe each time you change an ingredient and label each bag with the
recipe number.

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Ingredient Recipe 1 Recipe 2 Recipe 3

A
citric acid/lemon
Tomato Tomato sauce Powder sugar
juice
sauce
B Citric acid/ lemon
shampoo Powder sugar
shampoo juice
C Citric acid/ lemon
coffee Powder sugar
coffee juice
D Citric acid/ lemon
salt Powdered sugar
salt juice
E
Citric acid/lemon
Washing Washing powder Powder sugar
juice
powder
Taste of
sherbet

Recipe number ______2____is my best sherbet.

Separating a mixture of beans, rice and flour

1. Aim (What do I want to know?)

To separate every component in the mixture.

2. Equipment

Sieve
2 bowls
spoon

3. Procedure (What I am going to do? Identify the separation techniques where

appropriate in your steps)

1.mix the ingredients together in a bowl

2.put the second bowl under the sieve and pour the mixture through the sieve
3. now you will have the residue on the top which will be the beans.

4. Results (Observations)

1. Not all the mixture was sieved properly

2. the sieving technique was a little messy
3. the flour was getting stuck coating the beans and rice and wasn’t fully sieved

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4. the experiment was successful, but we could improve some strategies.

5. Conclusion (How well did my separation work?)

I think my separation technique worked well and I managed to separate almost all
the
mixture.

6. Reflection (How I could change the separation to make it better? Consider which
techniques worked well and which didn’t)

I used a sieve to separate my mixture, a problem I encountered whilst conducting

this experiment was the mixture was stuck in the sieve. To fix this problem maybe
next time I could use another
technique.