SIM or Strategic Intervention Material refers to teaching aid introduced into the teaching methods to stimulate

the activity of the students and thereby increasing their level of understanding. Its main aim is to help the students
understand a specific lesson in the easiest way as possible through activities, enrichment and assessment.
This Strategic Intervention Material will discuss on separating mixtures. It is designed to develop an understanding on
different ways to separate mixtures. This contains different activities to show separating mixtures in scientific ways.
In performing the different activities, students are expected to enhance their observation, classification, analization
and comprehension.
Questions asked in this S.I.M. are made not to evaluate as for instruction instead they were made to call the attention
of the students needed in developing the concept in hand.
This S.I.M. is not intended for you, students, to add difficulty in understanding the lesson but to give the easiest way
for you to decipher the topics essence. So dont be hard on yourself in turning every page of this SIM yet bring that
great smile on your face while answering the activities and questions asked on you.

Hello! Im SIM. Call me Sissy. Im here to help you understand our topic in Chemistry,
Separating Mixtures. Dont worry. I wont stress you out. Just read me carefully
and Ill promise you, I can be your friend. So are you ready? Hope you are.
In your everyday life, have you ever asked your self on how you can separate
certain substances? Then, common sense just pop unto your head, Ill use the strainer.
Something like that. But with me, Ill help you gain some other knowledge on
separating mixtures. Ill give you tips to help you.
Ill help you:
+ Relate the Science of separating mixtures in real life
+ Understand concepts in Separating Mixtures
+ Discuss different ways on separating mixtures

GUIDE
CARD
1
Filtration
This is good for separating
an insoluble solid from a
liquid. (An insoluble
substance is one that does
not dissolve).
Evaporation
This is good for separating
a soluble solid from a liquid
(a soluble substance does
dissolve, to form a solution).

Magnetic separation
This is a process in which
magnetically susceptible
material is extracted from a
mixture using a magnetic
force.
Chromatography

HELP ME!!!
Oops. Ive mixed up all these solids, which belong to some of my teachers. I will be in BIG
trouble unless you can help me out. What will you use to separate these mixtures? Please
help me!

Iron nail-Water
Sand-Water
Red Ink and Black Ink
Water and salt

MATCH MEEE!
Im feeling confused. My mother asked me to separate these substances and I dont know where to start and what to do. I know youre ready to guide me!
Just match the substances/objects in Column A to the processes given in Column B. Thank you!

Column A

a. Adsorption

Activated charcoal and lead

b. Simple distillation

Water and ethanol solution

c. Fractional Distillation

Water and salty water

d. Dissolution

Stains on clothes and organic solvents

Column B
Youre so generous of your time. Thank you for helping me.
Im glad your mother wont scold you.
Sorry, dont worry. Your mother will understand.
Sorry. Just listen to your mother wholeheartedly.

Its Experiment

Adsorption and
desorption adsorbed gases
or liquids can recovered
from the adsorbent material
by washing with a solvent

Time!
Salt, a mineral with the main component being sodium chloride,
or NaCl, has been used for millennia to help preserve food
(and make it tasty!). In ancient times, salt was used as a form
of currency in some cultures. During the period when the
ancient Phoenicians controlled the salt trade in the
Mediterranean, salt was as expensive as gold! In this lab, we
will learn how to separate salt from water through a solar
processyou can use the sun to evaporate water, leaving
behind the salt.

Dissolution (washing)
separate solids by washing
away those are soluble.
Simple distillation
This is good for separating a
liquid from a solution.
Fractional distillation

1.

This is good for separating

two or more liquids from
each other. For example,
ethanol (alcohol) can be
separated from a mixture of
ethanol and water by
fractional distillation.

Objective: Evaporate water to form salt crystals.

Materials

Baking sheet, Black paper, Salt, Water, Cooking pot

Procedure
If you do not have a source of salt water (such as water from the ocean), then mix salt and water in a
cooking pot until all the salt has dissolved. Your goal is to make a fairy concentrated solution of salt and
water.

2.
3.

Lay the black paper on the baking sheet. Why is it important to use black paper?
Pour the salt water into the baking sheet, making sure to cover the black paper.

4.

Set the baking sheet somewhere warm, like outside in the sun or on a table by a window.

5.

Record your observations over a number of days until all the water is gone.

The color black absorbs all frequencies of visible light, which will helps the light energize the water molecules which evaporate when
they get hot. It is important that the pan is somewhere warm, because the water will more evaporate into the air more quickly. As the
water evaporates, the salt doesnt leave with it! Therefore, the concentration of salt in the water left behind increases. Eventually, the
concentration gets so high that the water becomes supersaturated, and the salt will begin to recrystallize into a solid. When all of the
water is gone, you will have salt!
The same process is done on a very large scale, worldwide. A common method involves allowing seawater to flow into shallow flat
beds through channels that are then sealed off. The sun heats the water until all of it evaporates, leaving mountains of salt behind.
The salt is then collected and cleaned. Salts a particularly important mineral isnt just used for cookingits an essential ingredient in
agriculture, science, and countless industrial products.

Across
2. separating an insoluble solid from a liquid.
3. __________ distillation is good for separating two or more
liquids from each other
4. separating a soluble solid from a liquid
7. __________distillation is good for separating a liquid from a solution
8. Magnetic ________ is a process in which magnetically susceptible
material is extracted from a mixture using a magnetic force
Down
1. o separating feldspars from quartz in rocks by washing
with hot concentrated phosphoric acid

 5. washing with a solvent

6. The different substances in _________ are usually
easily separated from one another.

Youll be needing:
Thumb tacks, Magnet, Sand,
Container, Water, Strainer

Step 1:
In a container, pour of water.
Then put the sand and iron nails in
it.
Step 2:
Try to separate thumb tacks, sand and water using your hand.
Step 3:
Done with step 2? Is it hard? Now try using the magnet. Just dip the magnet unto the
water.
Step 4:
After getting the thumb tacks, use the strainer to filtrate the sand from the water .

What do you call the process

wherein youll..

separate dissolved substances that have different colours, such as inks and plant dyes.
separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
Recover adsorbed gases or liquids from the adsorbent material by washing with a
solvent
separate solids by washing away those that are soluble
separate a soluble solid from a liquid (a soluble substance does dissolve, to form a
solution).
separate a liquid from a solution
for separate two or more liquids from each other
extract magnetically susceptible material from a mixture using a magnetic force.

Really? Thats it?

Now, I get it!
What? -_-

Really?
Thats it?
Now, I
get it!

Still not getting it. =.=

What? -_Still not

What are you going to use..

To get a metal from a tight spaced
container
To obtain the salty water
To see the Salt in water
To recover dyes/ inks
To separate sand and rocks

CHOOSE HERE:
FILTRATION

CHROMATOGRAPHY

SIMPLE DISTILLATION
MAGNETIC SEPARATION

EVAPORATION

FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION
ADSORPTION

DISSOLUTION

ANSWER CARD
ACTIVTY 1

1.dissolution

6.Simple distillation

1.Magnetic Separation

2.filtration

7.Fractional Distillation

2.Filtration

3.fractional

8.Magnetic Separation

3.Chromatography

4.evaporation

4.Evaporation

5.adsorption

ENRICHMENT CARD

6.mixtures

1.Magnetic Separation

ACTIVTY 2

7.simple

2.Simple distillation

1.d

8.separation

3.Evaporation

2.a

4.Chromatography

3.c

ASSESSMENT CARD

4.b

1.Chromatography
2.Filtration
3.Adsorption
4.Dissolution

ACTIVTY 4

5.Evaporation

5.Filtration

REFERENCE CARD
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/compounds
_mixtures/revision/9/
http://www.gscdn.org/library/cms/39/14339.pdf
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science3c.htm
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/pdfs/7sepsolids.pdf