Freeport - McMoRan: Dig Into Mining - Mineral Mixtures and Mining

In this activity students will plan and carry out an investigation to separate out several items that were mixed together back to their original pure substances.

Students will have to determine how best to separate each material, write a procedure, and perform the separation procedure, recording their findings.

STEAM Topics Resource Audience Grade Level Tags PDFs

Science Topics

Chemistry, Natural Resources

Middle School, Educator

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Mining, Minerals

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Students become immersed in a classroom investigation to separate several materials and track them back to their original pure substance.