JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Grade 7

SCIENCE

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Mixtures and Substances

Grade 7—Science
Competency: Distinguish mixtures from substances based on a set of
properties (S7MT-Ie-f-4)
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Sci-Box (A Self-Learning Package) for JHS
Mixtures and Substances
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Grade 7—Science
Competency: Distinguish mixtures from substances based on a set of
properties (S7MT-Ie-f-4)
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Grade 7—Science
Competency: Distinguish mixtures from substances based on a set of
properties (S7MT-Ie-f-4)
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SCIENCE 7
Mixtures and Substances
Learning Competency:
Distinguish mixtures from substances
based on a set of properties
(S7MT-Ie-f-4)
 Ready to Launch!
Matter can be broken down into two categories that is mixture and pure
substances. Pure substances are further classified into elements and compounds.
Mixtures are physically combined structures that can be separated into their
original components. It can be homogenous mixture or heterogeneous mixture.

We didn't knew, but mixtures and substances are a common occurrence in

our everyday lives. They are the air we breathe, the food and drink we consume
and the fabrics we wear. Mixtures and substances surrounds us and it is part of
ours that we may not noticed it.

Aim at the Target!

At the end of this module, you will be able to distinguish mixtures from pure
substances. Specifically, you are tasked to:
a. describe the types of matter: mixtures and pure substances;
b. identify mixtures as homogenous or heterogeneous;
c. identify pure substances as elements and compounds; and
d. explain the different properties of each group of materials.

Try This!
Instruction: Read each item carefully. Choose the letter with the correct answer.
Write it on your answer sheet.

Match each diagram with its correct description.

A B C D E
__ 1. Pure Element – only one type of atom present.
__ 2. Mixture of two elements – two types of uncombined atoms present.
__ 3. Pure compound – only one type of compound present.
__ 4. Mixture of two compounds – two types of compounds present.
__ 5. Mixture of a compound and an element.
6. A liquid has the following properties: one-phase, colorless, boils at varying tempera-
ture. Which of the following BEST describes the liquid?
A. Mixture C. Heterogeneous
B. Substance D. Homogenous

7. Jill has an unopened box of a 2-meter foil labeled 100% made of aluminum. Alumi-
num is a substance. Jill takes just a thumb-size piece of the aluminum foil. Which
of the following statements is TRUE about the piece of aluminum foil that Jill took
compared with the rest that was left in the box?
A. Its mass and melting behavior are different.
B. Its mass and melting behavior are the same.
C. The mass is different but the melting behavior is the same.
D. The mass is the same but the melting behavior is different.

8. Which is correctly paired?

A. vegetable salad: homogenous: mixture
B. water: compound: pure substance
C. silver: heterogeneous: pure substance
D. soft drinks: heterogeneous: mixture

9. Sodium chloride (table salt) dissolves in water very well. Which is NOT TRUE in the
following statements?
A. Water is a pure substance
B. Sodium chloride (table salt) is a pure substance
C. Dissolving sodium chloride (table salt) with water produces a mixture
D. Dissolving sodium chloride (table salt) with water produces a new substance.

Keep This in Mind!

Activity 1: “Mixture or Substance?”
Direction: On your answer sheet, make a table (Column 1 for Mixtures, Column 2 for
Substances) and classify the following materials below. Write the numbers only.

1. Coffee 2. Mix nuts 3. Table salt 4. Water 5. Charcoal

6. Milk tea 7. Gold bars 8. Pizza 9. Cement 10. Hamburger

 Activity 2- Differentiating Mixtures and Substances
Materials:

1. A glass of sugar
2. 5 thick, glass bottle that can be heated
Station 1 3. Matches
4. alcohol
5. rags (use to hold heated glass bottle)
1. A piece of potato
2. Knife
3. Matches
4. Rags
Station 2
5. 2 clean bottles ( glass or plastic)
6. barbecue sticks
7. spoon for stirring
Hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada)

Procedure:
Station 1
1. Place a spoonful of sugar in a glass bottle. Observe its properties.
2. Heat the glass bottle for a few minutes and note down changes in color and odor of sugar.
(NOTE: Do not taste).
3. Do you notice anything unusual on the side of the glass bottle? Describe your observations.
4. Light match, let it burn for a while then blow it out. Take note of the smell and color of the
burnt match. Compared it to the heated sugar.
A. What happens to sugar after heating it for a few minutes?
B. Describe the contents of the glass bottle. What is the substance left in the glass bottle.
C. Can you identify the droplets on the side of the glass bottle?
D. Can you recover the original white sugar crystals if you add to sugar?
E. Describe the appearance of the burnt match. What dominant substance may be
present in burnt match? Does it resemble the heated sugar?
F. Based on your observation, what substances are formed when sugar is intensely
heated? Is sugar a substance or a mixture?

Station 2
1. Place a small amount of hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada) in a clean bottle. Cut a small
piece of potato then peel off its skin. Name some properties of water and potato.
2. Carefully drop the piece of potato into the bottle with hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada).
Describe your observations.
G. Name some uses of the hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada).
H. Describe what happens when potato is added to hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada).
Can potato and hydrogen peroxide (agua oxinada) be separated after they have
mixed?
I. Are there new substances formed? What could be these substances?
Analysis

Direction: Identify mixtures as homogenous or heterogeneous , substances as

elements and compounds.
Materials:
• 1 glass of rice grains, mongo beans or any beans and pebbles.
• 9 plastic dishes
• tape and marker, to number dishes
• four examples of elements:
aluminum (one small sheet of foil)
copper (a small piece of wire or tubing)
iron (filings or a magnet)
carbon (in the form of a pure carbon pencil or graphite)
• four examples of compounds:
water, or H20 (~100 mL)
table salt, or NaCl (~10g)
baking soda, or NaHCO3 (~10g)
eggshell or a seashell, or CaCO3
• four examples of mixture, both homogeonous and heteogenous:
inflated Ziploc bag (as an example of air)
bottle of Coke or other soda
salad dressing (such as a vinegarette made of oil and water)
salt water

Procedure:
1. Prepare nine plastic dishes of rice, mongo and pebbles as described below. Place
them on a table (called Table A). Indicate the dish numbers in some way, such as
with tape and a marker.
• Dish 1: 1 table spoon of rice
• Dish 2: 1 table spoon of mongo beans
• Dish 3: 1 table spoon of pebbles
• Dish 4: combine 1 table spoon of rice with 1 table spoon mongo beans
• Dish 5: combine 2 table spoon of rice with 1 table spoon mongo beans
• Dish 6: combine 1 table spoon of rice and 1 table spoon of pebbles with 1 table
spoon mongo beans
• Dish 7: 1 compound as in dish 5 and 1 compound as in dish 6
• Dish 8: 1 compound in dish 4 and 1 compound in dish 6
• Dish 9: 1 compound as in dish 4 and 2 compound as in dish 5.
2. Place the examples of elements, compounds, and mixtures on another table (called
Table B) and label them. You may also label the compounds with their specific chem-
ical formula for example, table salt would be (NaCl). Use the blank data tables to an-
swer questions.
Table A.

1. Rice grains, monggo beans and pebbles can be used to convey the concept of
elements, mixtures and compounds. Let us think that each rice grain, monggo bean
and pebble as an individual atom.
2. We can say that the contents of dishes 1, 2 and 3 are elements because they are
all the same atom and that can not be further reduced as to simpler substances.
3. The contents of dishes 4, 5 and 6 are compound because they show one sub-
stance composed of two or more different atoms chemically bonded to one another.
4. While the contents of dishes 7, 8 and 9 are mixtures because they are materials
containing two or more elements or compounds and are mixed in any proportion.

Table B.

1. Compare and contrast the different items on the table and make a list of your
own.
2. You must categorize the materials in each dish as element, homogenous
mixture, heterogeneous mixture or compound, record this in your data tables.

Element, Mixture, Compound Activity

Data Table

Direction: Categorize the material in each dish as element, compound, homog-

enous mixture or heterogeneous mixture.

Dish # Element Compound Homogeneous Heterogeneous

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Abstraction and Generalization

We’ve already learned that everything you see, and much of what you can’t see,
is made up of matter. Matter exists in one of three states.
Matter is almost never pure. Everywhere there are mixtures of different types of
matter and different states of matter. All matter can be categorized depending on how
pure and how well mixed it is. Matter is either pure substance or a mixture.

Solid Liquid Gas

Matter

Pure Substances Mixtures

Pure Substances can be classified into elements and compounds and can exist
as solid, liquid or gas.

First, let’s talk about solid. Have seen diamond? Graphite (pencil lead) is a pure
carbon just like a diamond. How does graphite behave differently from diamonds?
 A liquid example you are all familiar with distilled water which is consid-
ered a pure substance. Each molecule is made up of one oxygen and two hy-
drogen atoms. The chemical formula for water is H2O, but what is the chemi-
cal formula for ice?

H2O

Helium (He) is a pure substance which exists as a gas. It is used to in-

flate blimps and party balloons. This is another kind of pure substance .

All pure substances contain the same type of particles throughout. There are
two kinds of pure
substances:
Element (s)
A substance
that can not be fur-
ther reduced as to
simpler substances
by ordinary pro-
cesses . In essence,
an element is a sub-
stance consisting of one type of atom. Example Helium (He), Gold (Au),
Potassium (K), etc.
Compounds— a pure substance that consist of particles of two or more differ-
ent elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by means such
filtering. That means that it can not be separated into its constituents by me-
chanical or physical means and only can be destroyed by chemical means.
Example, water (H2O), ice (H2O3), salt NaCl) etc.
Mixtures
Another type of matter that is a material containing two or more elements
or compounds that are in close contact and are mixed in any proportion. For
example, air, sea water, crude oil, etc. The constituents of a mixture can be
separated by physical means like filtration, evaporation, sublimation and
magnetic separation.
The constituents of a
mixture retain their
original set of proper-
ties.
There are two types of mixture:

• Homogeneous mixture has the same uniform appearance and composition throughout
its mass. For example, sugar or salt dissolved in water, alcohol in water, etc.
• Heterogeneous mixture consists of visibly different substances or phases (gas, liquid and
solid). A heterogeneous mixture does not have a uniform composition throughout its
mass. For example concrete is a heterogeneous mixture of an aggregate cement, and
Water. Cereal, mixed vegetables etc.

Application

Below is a list of mixtures. Classify each as homogenous or heterogeneous.

1. carbonated drink homogenous heterogeneous

2. powdered mothballs and salt

3. bagoong isda

4. water from a well

5. salt solution

True or False.

1. An element be broken down into simpler substance.

2. A compound is a substance made up of two or more elements.

3. Ethyl alcohol is an example of element.

4. Ferrous sulfate cannot be broken down into simpler substances.

5. Water is composed of more than two elements.

Reflect
Give different situations in your daily activities that shows the types of matter.

Reinforcement & Enrichment

On a short bond paper with 0.5 inch margin make a collage of the different examples of
mixtures and substance that we see at the environment .
 Assess Your Learning
1. Which statement in NOT TRUE regarding pure substances?
A. Pure substance are homogenous.
B. Pure substances boil and melt at a particular temperature.
C. Pure substances are made up of only one kind of element.
D. Pure substances as compounds can be further broken down into simpler
substances.

2. Mixtures can be separated by physical methods while pure substances cannot. Which
of the following groups contain only pure substances?
A. air, methane, sodium chloride
B. iron, ethanol, calcium fluoride
C. ammonia, vinegar and silicon
D. carbon dioxide, air, water

3. Which of the following statements distinguishes pure substances from mixtures?

A. Mixtures can be separated by physical means while substances cannot.
B. Mixtures and substances consist of two or more kinds of matter.
C. Mixtures and substances have no specific solubility and densities.
D. Mixtures have constant boiling and melting temperature while substances don’t
have.

4. A pinch of bread was placed inside a test tube and heated until it became blackish in
color and released some gas. Which of the following statements/s is/are TRUE according
to the given information?
I. Bread is a solution
II. Bread is composed of only one substance
III. Bread is made up of solid and gaseous substances
IV. Bread is consist of mixtures of different substances

A. I only C. II only
B. II & III D. III & IV

5. Oliver heated a liquid in a casserole. He forgot to turn off the stove right away and all
the liquid was gone. But he noticed that there were some solid materials that settled at the
surface of the casserole. What can be inferred from this observation?

A. The liquid was a pure substance.

B. The liquid was composed of a single materials.
C. The liquid was mixture with dissolved solid materials.
D. The liquid material was a pure substance because it evaporate.

6. Which of the following lists of materials are composed of mixtures?

A. vinegar, 70% alcohol, carbon C. oxygen, sodium chloride, water
B. blood, calamansi juice, air D. carbon dioxide, bleach, oil
7. Sodium chloride dissolves in water very well. Which is NOT TRUE in the following
statements?
A. Water is a pure substance
B. Sodium chloride is a pure substance
C. Dissolving sodium chloride with water produces a mixture
D. Dissolving sodium chloride with water produces a new substance

8. In the lab, Kane is using a substance that has a chemical formula and contains
two different elements. What is Kane’s substance?
A. element C. heterogeneous mixture
B. compound D. homogenous mixture

9. How do compounds differ from elements?

A. A compound is combination of two or more elements.
B. Compound cannot be broken down into parts.
C. Compound is made up from the same type of atoms.
D. Compound is a pure substance, elements are not.

10. Cookies and ice cream would be classified as:

A. homogenous mixture C. element
B. heterogeneous mixture D. compound

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Science—Grade 7 Learner’s Material First Edition, 2017