Sorting Materials

You know how it is one day ... you are carrying an amount of salt, sand, rice, kidney beans, pasta and some metal paperclips...

Well accidents do happen and they happened within year 5 as Mr Hegarty was carrying all the materials at once to save making a second trip.

 

So the challenge was set .... how do you separate the materials from each other so you can reuse them again...

Given tweezers, sieves of various sizes, 

colanders, magnets along with filter paper, funnels and water the groups had to explore how to separate them.

Some were easy.... 

Some were a lot harder....

 Separating sand and salt was more difficult as this used filtration and evaporation.

The children were successful in separating the materials from each other, and hope that Mr Hegarty will be more careful in future!