Solubility scientist in action!

In Year 5 over the last couple of days we have being very busy scientists. We have being revisiting the properties of different materials, looking at how we can sort materials based on their properties.

Then we have learnt about solutions and mixtures: how they are formed and what makes a material soluble or insoluble. Next we were set the task of designing a fair test experiment to test if several substances were soluble or insoluble. We had a great time predicting and getting stuck into our investigations.

Finally, we looked at reversible and irreversible changes and how solutions and mixtures can be separated (using evaporation, magnetism, filtration and sieving).