MATTER AND MATERIAL: WATER PURIFICATION FOR GRADE 6.

Pertinent
questions
Link to caps
document Is it safe to use
water that is not
Lesson outcomes This topic (process to purified?
purify water) is found
At the end of the lesson, in the Natural Science
learners have to: and Technology
1. Describe the process of CAPS document
water purification. grade 4-6.
2.Design a simple water It is dealt with in grade
purifier. 6, term 2, page 55.
3.communicate the Introduction
importance of water
purification to their In this lesson we will
communities. introduce the topic of
Assessment water purification as well
as how to have access
Formative assessment Knowledge, Skills and values to clean water. There will
Class discussion and Learners will do an investigation. be a class discussion as
participation well as water purification
Learners will design the water purifier and record their experiment.
Water filtering activity findings.
Worksheet. In terms of values learners will learn how to respect the
environment and reduce water pollution.

Teaching strategy Resources

Learner activity Dirty water, litter, cotton, sand,
Guided inquiry strategy.
Learners must participate in the grass, 2litre bottle, PH and Consolidation
Learners will have to conduct the class discussion and provide chlorine strip, scissor, rubber
experiment on their own, and band, coffee filter, textbook and Learners will complete the
examples of water sources that
construct their knowledge about worksheet worksheet and have a class
has impurified water. They have
the process of purifying water, the discussion about their findings.
to build a handmade water
teacher will employ scaffolding in purifier and do a worksheet.
the lesson.