DRILL: What kind of mixtures are the following. Describe each
What drinks do you usually prepare during breakfast? Have you not wondered which of those substances does the dissolving or the substance that is being dissolved?
Questions: What is solute? What is solvent? What is solution?
What is Solutions? Solutions are a special type of mixture in which one substance is dissolved evenly into another substance.
A solvent is a substance that does the dissolving or it is a substance used to dissolve a solute. It is of a larger amount. A solute dissolves or the substance that is being dissolved, it is of smallest amount. Water is called the universal solvent because it dissolves more substances than any other.
There are solutes that can be dissolved in solvent, it is called soluble. However, there also substances that cannot be dissolved in solvent, it is called insoluble.
Directions: Have students stand in a circle and toss the ball to each other. Each time they toss the ball, have them name a mixture. One round can be "Name a Mixture," the next round can be "Name a Solution," etc.