Product title

Science Explorer II

Activity title on CD-Rom

Unmix it

Key Stage and year

KS2, Y4

Curriculum Reference

 
Science

Primary Curriculum

QCA Y4 4D Solids, liquids and how they can be separated
NC Sc1 KS2 Sc1 1 Sc3 3 a - e

Scottish Guidelines

Environmental Studies 5-14 Society, Science and Technology Earth and Space Level C

This activity is an excellent extension activity for practical investigations on separating different mixtures. Children make decisions on the way in which a mixture of two different things can be separated.
An important feature is that there is more than one way of separating a given mixture and children should be encouraged to explore this feature of the activity.
Do the children think that one way is better than the other?