Science 7

Scientific investigation –
Using water from the sea
 animals

Short
Review
plants

abiotic
Q1. What are the basic needs of all living
things?
Q2. What are some of the things that
plants grown in a garden need to make
sure they grow?
Q3. What are some separation techniques
that we could use to separate water from
mixtures?
 Sample answers:
Q1. They need air, food, water, and shelter.
Q2. They need water, light, or the sun, air, and
nutrients in soil.
Q3. We could use filtration, decanting or
evaporation.
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Purpose
To know and understand that separating
mixtures can produce very useful
products.
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Language
Practice
Seedling; Separate;
Equipment
Lesson
Activity Component
4A
Sample answer:
• I wonder what a prison
cell looks like.
• All living things are made
of cells.
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Activity
Co m po n e nt 4 B
 Q1. What should Angela use to
measure the amount of water she
intends to give the plants each
day?
Q2. How should Angela prepare the
containers she will put the seedlings in?
 Q3. Suggest a method that Angela
should now use to put the seedlings in
the container and set up a
schedule for watering.
Sample answers:
Q1. She could use a 1-liter garden
watering can and fill it up each time.
Q2. She should put the same amount
of soil into 6 containers that are the
same size and made of the
same material.
 Q3. Angela should very carefully
count the same number of seedlings
into each container and then
mark three containers as sample A
and the other three as sample B
 Component
Lesson 4C
Activity
Q1. How should Angela measure which
seedlings were growing better?
Q2. What would Angela need to do to
change the liquid sea water to make it
evaporate to a gas and
what does she need to do to condense it
back to liquid?
Q3. Why did Angela use the processes of
evaporation and condensation?
Q1. Angela should measure the height of the
seedlings before she starts the experiment
and then
measure them again each week.
Q2. Angela needs to heat the liquid sea
water and then cool the gas down so that it
condenses back
to a liquid.
 Q3. She first had to heat the sea water so
that the water would evaporate leaving the
salt behind. She
then had the equipment set up to capture
the water vapor and cool it so that it turned
back into
pure liquid water.
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Conclusion
 Q1. Has this lesson helped you to
understand how useful separating
techniques are?
Q2. Did you find Angela’s experiment
interesting? If so, why?