sand & sawdust separation
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Ocean Breeze
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sand & sawdust separation
A yr 8 fill-in lesson. Easiest way to separate sand & sawdust? Flotation?
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dolphinscales
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- School: Mandurah Senior College
- State/Location: WA
Alterntave fill in
Hello,
Our year 8 fill in activity is seperating a mixture of Iron filings, sand and salt.
They use magnet for iron, add water to dissolve salt and filter sand then evaporate the water to get the salt.
Extention is to collect the water during evaporation (they have to ask me for a distilitation kit.)
Might be a good alternative.
Regards
Michelle
Our year 8 fill in activity is seperating a mixture of Iron filings, sand and salt.
They use magnet for iron, add water to dissolve salt and filter sand then evaporate the water to get the salt.
Extention is to collect the water during evaporation (they have to ask me for a distilitation kit.)
Might be a good alternative.
Regards
Michelle
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Ocean Breeze
- Posts: 798
- Joined: 01 Jun 2006, 10:00
- Job Title: Lab Manager
- State/Location: NSW
Great, thanks guys.
The teacher wanted to do the Fe filings/sand/salt prac with the juniors... but I wasnt comfortable with it, as it was the exact prac that our yr chems were doing for assessment the very next day. & I knew that there were some younger siblings in that junior class. So the idea was to pull the plug on their planned prac, & to throw in something different, but similar. Kind of making it up as we go along!!!
The teacher wanted to do the Fe filings/sand/salt prac with the juniors... but I wasnt comfortable with it, as it was the exact prac that our yr chems were doing for assessment the very next day. & I knew that there were some younger siblings in that junior class. So the idea was to pull the plug on their planned prac, & to throw in something different, but similar. Kind of making it up as we go along!!!
