A Year 5 science labelling sheet on filtration, matched to the England National Curriculum. A diagram shows the apparatus used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid. Pupils label six parts, A to F, from a word bank: filtrate, filter paper, residue, conical flask, mixture and filter funnel. The answer key follows the mixture from A at the top down to the filtrate at F in the flask.
Properties and changes of materials
“Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating”
Filtering only. Sieving and evaporating are not on the sheet.
Properties and changes of materials
“Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution”
Not covered directly. Filtration separates an insoluble solid, so use this sheet to show why it cannot recover salt from salt water.
A six-word bank and a filtration diagram with lines A to F. Pupils write each name on its line.
A mixture, B residue, C filter paper, D filter funnel, E conical flask, F filtrate.
After the practical
Label the sheet straight after pupils have filtered sand from water, so residue and filtrate mean something.
Word wall
Put residue and filtrate on the board with arrows to the real filter paper and flask.
Prediction
Ask pupils what would end up as residue if they filtered salt water, and why the answer is nothing.
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