Mixtures+and+Materials

Mixtures and Materials In outline:  Week 1 - Asking 'What if?' questions about what would happen if, for example, oil and water were mixed, or sugar and water, or flour and water. Week 2 - Classifying a range of materials including all three states by their properties. This was firstly in an 'either/or' table using properties chosen by the children. Later they considered whether there were some materials where the properties would best be described using a Venn diagram. Week 3 - Filling balloons with sand, rice, shampoo or air to consider how solids like sand might move in a similar fashion to a gooey liquid when trapped in a balloon. A Homework from: Science on the Shelves yielded these results ...  Week 4  -   An activity introduced with this PowerPoint presentation resulted in groups using the apparatus set out with little guidance from the teacher.

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