Lesson Two – Purifying Water
This science teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and model some of the different methods that can be used to purify water that has been contaminated with a range of solid substances.
The class can practise and explain how to use the scientific process of evaporation to try and recover a selection of solid materials from a liquid.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model some of the different methods that can be used to purify water that has been contaminated with a range of solid substances
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the properties of different solids, liquids and gases and a template to select and record their observations when evaporating a solution formed by combining water and salt.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different methods that can be used to purify water contaminated with a range of solid substances
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to investigate, test and record how a range of different materials can be changed and altered including the use of dissolving and evaporation. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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