🔬 Part 1: Understanding Dissolving

1. What happens when salt dissolves in water?

The salt disappears completely

The salt breaks into tiny particles that spread through the water

The salt turns into water

The salt floats on top of the water

2. In a salt and water mixture, which is the solute?

Water

Salt

Both salt and water

Neither

3. Which methods could separate salt from water? (Tick all that apply)

Filtering with coffee filters

Evaporation

Using a magnet

Heating until water becomes steam

4. Complete the sentence: The process where dissolved particles spread evenly through a liquid is called __________.

📝 Part 2: Investigation Recording

5. Before starting your experiment, write your hypothesis:

What do you think will happen when we try to separate salt from saltwater?

6. Draw and label what you observed during the dissolving process:

7. Explain why filtering did not separate the salt from the water:

8. Using the vocabulary words (dissolve, solute, solvent, diffusion), describe what happened in your experiment:

9. How does understanding dissolving help us appreciate God's design in creation?

10. Write one way this knowledge could help us care for God's creation:

11. Vocabulary Challenge: Write the word for "dissolve" in te reo Māori: __________ and in Afrikaans: __________