Chemistry of Cosmetics - Digital Science Reading Article - Grades 5-7

Chemistry of Cosmetics - Digital Science Reading Article - Grades 5-7

Enhance your students’ scientific literacy and comprehension skills with the Chemistry of Cosmetics: a fully editable, disciplinary science reading activity for Grade 5-7 students. This unique tool mixes literacy with science through an engaging assignment where students read and reply to questions from a scientific paper.

This digital resource is developed for all types of learners in Grades 5-7 (ages 10-12) and could also be beneficial for older learners who have less developed learning aptitudes. The material dives into captivating topics like:

• Various chemical components found in cosmetics such as water, emulsifiers, preservatives, thickeners, emollients, pigments fragrances, and pH stabilizers.

Each page thoughtfully highlights crucial terminologies accompanied by their explanations to facilitate referential understanding.

• Different kinds of questions are presented knowledge-based directly from the text , connecting thoughts curiosity-stimulating open-ended varieties.

Diverse Applications/ Compatibility with Online Platforms

The Chemistry of Cosmetics is not restricted to classroom use only; it can function as homework or supplementary exercise adaptable for whole group study sessions or small group discussions. It showcases compatibility with Google Classroom making it seamless suitable even at distance learning settings.

Purchase Process/ Accessibility Options

An automatic copy creation upon purchase transfers the reading material right into your Google Drive by just clicking which you can then allocate to your students hassle-free— without worrying over formatting issues as its composition is ready-made just for you. This product has three versions catering wide-ranging accessibility:

• Google Classroom version
• Microsoft Word version
• PDF Version

Benefits / Unique Features

The Chemistry of Cosmetics serves a dual benefit. Firstly, fostering improved understanding of basic cosmetic formulation while advancing the aptitude for scientific language proficiency and overall enhancement of topic-specific vocabulary development.

This product is also suitable as an emergency substitute plan to aid in various educators’ common problems like addressing scientific literacy in the curriculum, managing pacing concern for speed learners, and designing activities that evaluate information retention among others.

1 zip file with:

-Reading passage as a DOC and PDF

-Comprehension questions w/ Answer Key

-Google Reading Access PDF

The reading looks at:

- Introduction

- Water

- Emulsifiers

- Preservatives

- Thickeners

- Emollients

- Pigments

- Fragrances

- pH Stabilizers