Separating

Mixtures
Through
Sieving
SCIENCE 6 – Q1 Week 5 (Lesson 9)
What’s In
Identify whether the technique
of separation of mixtures is
Filtration, Evaporation, or
Decantation
1. salt and Evaporation
water
2. flour andDecantation
water
3. sugar in Evaporation
maple syrup
4. tea from boiled
Filtration
leaves
5. butter and
Decantation
water
6. brewed coffee
Filtration
7. water and
Evaporation
copper sulfate
8. sugar in Evaporation
maple syrup
9. tamarind Filtration
extract
10. cooked noodles
Filtration
 What is It
Most of the things that we encounter in our day-to-day life
happen to be a mixture of two or more substances. We
need to separate these substances from the mixture in
order to use them independently. For example, you must
have noticed that we do not use the flour directly for
cooking pancakes. We use sieving technique in order to
separate the flour from the clumps.
SIEVING is a technique in separating mixtures
made up of differently sized particles. In this
process, the bigger particles are separated from
smaller or finer particles or from coarse to fine
particles using a sieve or sifter which is made up
of fine wire mesh or net in which smaller
particles can pass. The illustrations below show
the process of sieving.
Sieving can be
used on the
following
situations
1.) In cooking, for
example, we sift flour,
sugar and chocolate
powder to get a smaller
particle size for baking
leaving larger particles of
flour in the sifter.
2.) In construction sites,
for example, construction
workers separate rocks
from
sand for road building
and other construction
projects.
3.) In flour mill,
impurities like husks and
stones are removed from
wheat
through sieving.
 What’s More
Read each situation and identify
the way of separating the mixture.
Draw a happy face 🙂 if they will
use sieving and a sad face 🙁 if not.
1.) Marlon visits his vegetable garden
and found out that the soil has many
unwanted substances like small stones
and pieces of plastics.

2.) Mrs. Dampil’s daughter will have a

birthday party. She will bake a cake for
her but found out that the flour she will
use has bran.
3.) Denise’s mother was sick. She needs
to cook rice and found out some rice
husks with the rice.

4.( The carpenter needs to fix the broken

fence in his neighbors front yard. He
needed fine sand.
5.) Mother accidentally mixed iodized
salt with white sugar.
 Assessment
Write the best techniques in
separating the following
mixture.
1. sand and gravel

2. sugar solution

3. fish sauce from bagoong na isda

4. flour and monggo seeds

5. cocoa powder
6. Freshly squeezed coconut milk
7. olive oil and vinegar
8. powdered pepper and whole ground
pepper
9. tap water

10. sugar and rock salt

Answers
 Sieving
1. sand and gravel

Evaporating
2. sugar solution

Decantation
3. fish sauce from bagoong na isda

Sieving
4. flour and monggo seeds

5. cocoa powderSieving
 Filtration
6. Freshly squeezed coconut milk

Decantation
7. olive oil and vinegar
8. powdered pepper and whole ground
pepper Sieving
9. tap water Filtration
Sieving
10. sugar and rock salt
 Additional
Activities
Have you ever observed a baker baking a cake?
Why does a baker sift the flour, baking powder,
baking soda and sugar before using it in baking
a cake? What do you think will be the result of
the cake if they didn’t sift the flour?