Help children understand what dissolving is with this Year 5 What is Dissolving? Investigation Lesson.

In this Year 5 PowerPoint, pupils will learn key vocabulary within the context of dissolving (such as solution, soluble and insoluble) and investigate what dissolving is by experimenting on whether different materials will dissolve in water, such as salt, sugar and gravy granules. They will record findings in a table and create a graph to draw scientific conclusions from their fair test.

National Curriculum Objectives:

• Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.