FILTERING and SIEVING

Activity Time!

Activity 1:

Prepare:

Sand, water, glass, filter paper/ cloth

Procedure:

Mix sand and water and pour it to a glass with a filter paper or cloth. Observe what
happen.

Questions:

1. What kind of mixture is the muddy water? ___________________

2. What are the different components of muddy water? _____________________

3. How do we separate the components of the mixture? _____________________

4. What is filtering?
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Activity 2

Prepare:

Flour and mongo seeds, strainer, bowl

Procedure:

Mix the flour and mongo beans and pour it to the strainer. Observe what is left.

Questions:

1. What type of mixture is the flour and mongo? ____________________________________

2. How did we separate the mixture? _____________________________________________

3. What is sieving?
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Name: _______________________________________________________________

Directions: Write the appropriate method to separate the following mixture.

1. Flour from small pebbles. _____________________________________

2. Mongo from baby powder ______________________________________

3. Milk from grated coconut ________________________________________

4. Dried tea leaves from hot water _______________________________

5. Sand from water ______________________________________