Outcomes

• Sedimentation- describe how sediments settle in a suspension of muddy water.

• Sieving –describe how this is useful in separating different sized particles from a mixture.

• Give examples where sieving would be useful.

• List and draw common household sieves

• Filtering -define as a finer sieving process. A common procedure used in a science lab.

• Describe the end products of filtration using the terms – residue and filtrate.

• Draw diagrams of filtration labelling the residue, filtrate and suspension

• Magnetic separation -define as the use of the magnetic properties of some metals to separate them from non magnetic materials.