Now that children have learnt about mixtures, help them to understand how a mixture can be separated with this Year 5 How Can We Separate Different Mixtures? Investigation Lesson.

In this lesson, pupils will find out about three methods for separating mixtures before choosing two of them to separate a mixture of sand, salt and water. This is followed by a chance to record what they have done using diagrams and a short written explanation. An accompanying worksheet is available to support them with this task.

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National Curriculum Objectives:

• Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating.