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Science
First Quarter – Module 5:
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Week 5 and 6- Techniques in Separating
Mixtures
(Filtering, Sieving and Using Magnet
Science Grade 6
Quarter 1 – Module 5: Techniques in Separating Mixtures

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 What I Need To Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master some properties of matter. The scope of this module permits it to be used in
many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse
vocabulary levels of pupils. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence
of the curriculum. In using this module always handle it with care.

The module is about the techniques in separating the mixtures through the use of
filtering, sieving and magnets.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

 describe the techniques in separating desired materials

from common to local products. (S6MT-Id-f-2)
 enumerate the techniques in separating mixtures (S6MT-Id-f2)

What I Know (PRE-TEST)

Directions. Read and understand each question. Choose the letter of the correct
answers and write them on your answer sheet.

1. Which of the following techniques would be best to use to separate soil and
water?
A. decantation B. distillation C. filtration D. magnetism
2. What common household material can be separated through sieving?
A. vinegar B. cooking oil C. soy sauce D. lumpy flour
3. Sand and gravel maybe separated from each other through using of _______.
A. filter B. magnet C. sifter D. winnow
4. Which one of the following would you use to separate sand from the iron filings?
A. filter B. funnel C. magnet D. sifter
5. Which separation technique would be the best method to get clear water from a
mixture of fine sand and water?
A. distillation B. filtration C. magnetism D. sieving
6. How can we separate sugar and flour?
A. filtering B. sieving C. magnet D. decantation

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7. If Joy wants to get the iron filings out of some sand, what could she use to
separate this mixture?
A. decanting B. evaporation C. magnet D. sieving
8. Which process of separating solid substances from a liquid uses of filter paper or
any fine cloth?
A. filtering B. picking C. sieving D. sifting
9. Filtration is a process by which insoluble solids can be removed from a liquid by
using a ________.
A. funnel B. fine cloth C. mesh wire D. magnet
10. Which method that could best separate the components of mixture
containing insoluble solid in liquid?
A. decantation B. evaporation C. filtering D. sieving

Separating of Mixed
Materials by Filtering,
Sieving and Using Magnet

What are some ways of separating the components of mixtures?

Separating mixtures occur in different areas of science. In chemistry, water
softeners are used in order to separate the ions that give hardness to water. In
engineering, oil and gas filters are used in order for the machines to function fully and
prevent malfunctioning.
In life science, the kidney is the organ that filters wastes so that the body will
excrete these wastes. Can you think of other areas of science where separating of
mixtures occur?
The separation of mixture into its component substances uses the differences
in the physical properties of the materials in the mixtures. Can you think of the different
ways of separating mixtures in your homes?

In this lesson, you should be able describe and enumerate the techniques in
separating materials in the process of filtering, sieving and using magnet.

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 What’s In

Review of the other techniques in separating mixed materials

 What is decantation?
 What is evaporation?
Directions: Give the process used in every separation of materials
in each procedure given. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

PROCEDURE PROCESS
1. Washing of rice grains before cooking. ________________________
2. Boiling tea/guava leaves/ginger in a pot
and allowing it to settle at the bottom before
pouring it. ________________________

3. Drying of clothes under the heat of the sun. ________________________

4. Boiling salty water until it dries up. ________________________
5. Allowing the residues of flour and starch to
settle before removing the water in it. ________________________

What’s New

Directions: Find the mystery words in the “Word Search” trace the words and write them in
on your answer sheet.

F O G V G H S K N E
S I G W E T I V O R
A B L A O H F D A I
G H E T E B T T F S
F A G N E T E K H E
I R O L S R R T M D
L L S I E V I N G U
T E C V B N O N R E
E M H S I E V I G C
R F I L T R A T E F

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 What Is It

Probably, you do not use tea leaves anymore because there are tea bags that
are already sold in the market. You will just simply add hot water in a cup with a tea
bag. When you look at the teabag you will notice that the tea leaves are enclosed in a
special paper. This paper serves as a filter to prevent the leaves from mixing from the
hot water. This process of separation is called filtering.

You can use filtration in a liquid to separate mixture of a solid in a liquid or a

solid in a gas. Filtration is a process in which a mixture is pass through uninhibited
but blocks another component from passing through. In general, this method sorts by
size, with the filter acting as a barrier that allows smaller particles to go through but
keeps larger particles

Another method to remove the larger particles in a mixture is by using

sieve or strainer. This process is called sieving. Sieving is used if the mixture is
composed of insoluble solid in a liquid or both solid to solid mixture.
Sifting/Sieving- is used to separate smaller solid particles from larger solid
particles.

 For example, the mixture of different sized solid particles can

be put into a container that has a screen material at the
bottom with holes of certain size.

 When the mixture is shaken, the smaller particles go through

the screen leaving the larger particles in the container.

 Cooks, for example, sift flour to get a smaller particle size for
baking leaving larger particles of flour in the sifter above the
screen.

 Sand and gravel companies, for example, separate rocks into

different sized particles for road building and other
construction projects using this method.

Have you ever experienced losing a needle pin, iron nail in the floor or in soil in
your garden? You cannot just leave that way because others may got hurt once they
step on the objects. In order to find it what are you going to use? You can use a
magnet to pick sharp metallic objects that are lost on the ground or other surfaces.
Magnet attracts all iron materials.

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Vocabulary
Filter – a porous device use for removing impurities or solid particles from a
liquid or gas passed through it
Filtrate – the fluid material that passes through the filter
Filtration- the action or process of filtering something
Residue – a small amount of something that remains after the main parts has
gone or been taken or used.
Magnet - the process of separating components of mixtures by using magnet to
attract iron materials
Sieving – a process use to separate solid in a liquid or solid in a solid mixture

Sifter - is used to separate and break up clumps in dry ingredients

What’s More

Activity 1: “Filter Makes Me Fine “

Objective: Describe how to separate solid-liquid mixtures through filtration
technique effectively that commonly practiced at home.

Question to Investigate: How does a filtering technique an effective method in

separating mixture?
Materials Needed:

 Muddy water
 Grated coconut meat
 Kalamansi juice with seeds
 Boiled instant pancit Canton
 Tea/guava leaves/ginger in hot water
 A piece of fine cloth

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Procedure:

1. Using a fine cloth as a filter separate each of the following materials

alternately the muddy water, kalamansi juice with seeds, boiled instant
pancit canton, tea/guava leaves/ginger in hot water. Observe what
happen.
2. Wrap the grated coconut in a piece of cloth and squeeze it hardly.
3. Record your observations in the chart. Put a check mark ( ) in the
column to show that the mixed materials were separated, and ( X ) if it is
not.
Material Observation
1.Tea/guava leaves/ginger

2.Grated coconut meat

3.Kalamansi juice with seeds
4.Boiled instant pancit canton
5.Muddy water

Answer the following questions:

1. What is filtration?
____________________________________________________________

2. In the filtration process, what do you call the substance that remained in the
fine cloth?
____________________________________________________________

3. What do you call the substance that passes through the filter?
____________________________________________________________
4. What are the other mixtures found at home that can be separated by
filtration?
____________________________________________________________
Conclusion:
Based on the above activity, how does filtration effectively separate the solid-
liquid mixed materials?
____________________________________________________________________

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Let’s try this!
Activity 2: Separating of Mixture through Sieving
Objective: Describe how mixtures can be separated through sifting
and sieving.
Question to investigate: How does sifting and sieving technique can effectively
separate solid to solid or solid to liquid mixtures?
Materials: real objects of dry mixtures such as flour and sugar, rice
grains and starch, salt and pepper corn, strainer, bowl

Procedures:
 Mix the following dry materials in each bowl:
- flour and sugar
- rice grain and starch
- salt and peppercorn (pamintang buo)
 Put each mixture on top of your strainer or sifter one at a time, and shake
it gently. Observe what happen.

Questions:

1. Describe how to separate dry mixtures.

______________________________________________________

2. Based on your activity how can dry mixtures be separated?

______________________________________________________

3. What device can be used in sifting or sieving dry mixtures?

______________________________________________________

4. What is sieving or sifting?

______________________________________________________

5. What other mixtures at home that can be separated by sifting or

sieving ?
______________________________________________________
Conclusion:
Based on the above activity, how does sifting or sieving effectively separate the
solid to solid or solid to liquid mixture?

____________________________________________________________________________

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Activity 3: Attract Me More
Objective: Describe how magnets separate iron materials in a mixture

Question to investigate: How does magnet effectively separate iron materials from
a mixture?
Materials: Shoe box/any box available
Sand
Staple wires, Thumbtacks/small iron nails
Pebbles
Piece of string
Bar magnet/any magnet available at home
Procedure: Mix all the materials such as the sand, staple wires, thumbtacks/iron
nails and pebbles inside in a shoe box. Attach the magnet in a string.
Collect the materials inside the box by using the magnet tied to it.

Questions:

1. What are the different components of your mixture?

2. What materials are attracted to magnet?

3. What materials are not attracted to magnet?

4. How did you separate the compnents of the mixture? Describe the
process..

5. Give another example of mixture that can be separated by magnet?

Conclusion:
How does magnet effectively separate iron from mixed materials?

___________________________________________________________

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 What I Have Learned

A. Directions: Write the correct answers on your answer sheet.

Based from what you have taken above, what are the effective techniques in
separating mixtures?
1. __________________________________
2. __________________________________

3. __________________________________

B. Directions: Identify the process described below as to sifting, sieving, filtering and
using magnet. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

_____________1. A process in which a mixture is pass through uninhibited but blocks

another component from passing through.

____________ 2. A process of separating components of mixtures to attract iron

materials.
____________ 3. A porous device use for removing impurities or solid particles
from a liquid or gas passed through it.
____________ 4. It is used to separate and break up clumps in dry ingredients.

What I Can Do

Directions: Read the given situation and give your answer and explanation. Write it
on your answer sheet.

1. You are planning to cook Binignit, so your mother has to buy all the ingredients in the
market. Then you realize that it needs pure and fine gata. By squeezing it is not enough
because there are still coconut meat and residues that probably mixed with the gata.
What are you going to do? What proper material and procedure are you going to use?

___________________________________________________________________

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 2. In a construction site a worker accidentally mixed the gravel with cement. He wanted
to collect the gravel again. If you are the worker, what could be the best technique for
him to do? What would be the probable tool you are going to use?

___________________________________________________________________________

3. One day you are ask by your mother to look for her push pins and needles where she
accidentally thrown in the floor. So it is hard for you to pick it up one by one since it is
very fine and, sharp pointed. So what possible technique or method you are going to
use? What possible tool is best for collecting them?

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

ASSESSMENT

POST-TEST
Directions. Read and understand each question. Choose the letter of the correct
answers and write them on your answer sheet.

1. Which of the following techniques is best in separating soil and water?

A. decantation B. evaporation C. filtration D. use of magnet
2. What do you call the process where smaller particles will pass through a fine mesh
wire or fine material while leaving the larger particles on top of it?
A. decantation B. filtration C. use of magnet D. sieving
3. Which mixture cannot be separated through filtering?
A. oil and water C. starch and water
B. fine sand and water D. sugar and pebbles
4. The following are the process and technique in separating mixed materials
effectively EXCEPT _______.
A. coagulation B. filtration C. use of magnet D. fine mesh wire as sifter
5. Gerry put some dirty water into a funnel with a fine cloth. Clear water comes out of
the funnel into a glass and solid dirt gets left behind the fine cloth. What do you call
this process?
A. decantation B. distillation C. filtration D. sieving
6. What are you going to use if you want to separate the iron fillings from the sand?
A. colander B. filter C. magnet D. sifter
7. Jose wanted to help his father in building their house. He wanted to separate
the sand and gravel for concrete cementing. What method should he use?
A. decantation B. hand picking C. use of magnet D. sieving

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 8. Which method that could best separate the components of a mixture
containing insoluble solid in liquid?
A. decantation B. evaporation C. filtering D. sieving
9. Which of the following would you use magnetic attraction to separate a
mixture?
A. salt and water C. sand and sugar
B. iron pellets and wood chips D. large and small wood chips and salts
10. Which of the following statements describe sieving?
A. separating solid particles in a mixture with a filter
B. allowing heat to remove the water from a solution
C. using a magnet to remove the metal parts of a mixture
D. separating small particles from larger ones with a fine screen

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WHAT I KNOW
WHAT’S NEW WHAT’S IN 1. C
2. D
FILTERING 1. Decantation 3. B
SIEVING 2. Decantation 4. C
MAGNET 3. Evaporation 5. B
FILTRATION 4. Evaporation 6. B
RESIDUE 5. Decantation 7. C
FILTRATE 8. A
SIFTER 9. B
FILTER 10. C
Answer Key
 References

Books:

Marie Jessica B. Alumaga, Thelma R. Mingoa et., al Science and You, p.17-21
Vibal- 2016

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