5Blue- Separating mixtures

The children in Year 5 helped the teachers today when some materials were accidentally mixed up!

The children made suggestions about how the materials could be separated and discussed if the change was reversible or not.

What does reversible mean?

We discussed method of separation and decided on sieving, filtering and Evaporating.

Challenge: How did you separate each of the mixtures?

We have left the Salt and water mix on the window sill- why? What do we predict will happen?

4 responses to “5Blue- Separating mixtures”

  1. Zainab A.

    Reversible means that something is turning the other way round
    Salt water-it needs sun
    Tea leaves and water -filter paper
    Rice in water-sieve
    Flour and paper clips-magnetism

  2. Gufran E.

    Reversible means it you can turn something back to what it originally was.e.g. Rice and Water
    Ireversible mess we can’ t turn something back to what it originally was.e.g tea leaves and water

  3. Gufran E.

    We predict that the water will evaporate

  4. Gufran E.

    Flour and Paperclips: Magnetism
    Tea leaves and Water : Filter.Paper
    Rice and Water: Sieve
    Salt and Water : The Sun

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