Elements Compounds & Mixtures Strange But True Facts + 2 Truths & a Lie Activity

Understanding elements, compounds, and mixtures is a core middle and high school chemistry skill because it underpins everything from the periodic table and bonding to reactions, lab safety, materials science, and real world topics like pollution, medicine, cooking, and engineering. Teacher this through a 2 Truths and a Lie activity plus strange but true facts turns a potentially abstract unit into an engaging evidence-based challenge where students practice classifying matter, justifying claims with scientific language, and correcting common misconceptions. 

This resource supports flexible, low-prep instruction with a 5-slide digital, manipulable Google Slides student activity (10 facts and 5 believable lies), a 12- slide whole-class visual presentation featuring 10 fascinating facts, and a print-friendly 6-page PDF with answers, mix-and-match options, and a coloraturas facts version for easy display. With 20 total facts across the formats plus 5 lies, it is ideal for warm-ups, stations, review, sub plans, or extensions tasks that build vocabulary, critical thinking, and confidence with the chemistry foundation students need for success. 

This elements, compounds & mixtures 2 activity set provides a truly engaging set of ways to engage students. This resource can help your students spark learning about elements, compounds & mixtures. For digital, you can provide a visual strange facts version and a digital / print find the lie version of the 2 truths and a lie activity. 

Ideal for reviewing or opening content for this topic, collaborative work, or independent work, it helps reinforce key topics while using an unusual angle for educating on elements, compounds & mixtures. This ready-to-use resource is perfect for last-minute lesson plans, sub plans, or as an easy extension activity to get students looking at this physical phenomenon in a different kind of way.

THIS ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS & MIXTURES STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS / 2 TRUTHS & A LIE RESOURCE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

• Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
• To extend students
• To increase engagement & curiosity
• A daily opening fact
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
• To inspire students in an unusual manner 
• Get students to act as a group of science detectives (No Google though!)

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS & MIXTURES STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS / 2 TRUTHS & A LIE RESOURCE:

• 5 Slide Digital manipulable Google Slides Version for student use on 2 Truths and a lie activity (with 10 facts & 5 lies)
• 12 Slide Visual Presentation Google Slides Version for presenting 10 Strange But True Facts
• 6 page PDF print version with answers, mix and match 2 truths and a lie version, color strange but true version. 

These versions have effectively 10 strange but true facts & 10 DIFFERENT facts and 5 lies for the 2 truths and a lie activity. In total 20 facts on elements, compounds & mixtures & 5 lies in this resource, presented in different and useful methods for teaching and engagement.