You were helping your science teacher put away lab materials. They asked you to carry sand, iron filings, and salt in cups to put away. However, a fellow student left their backpack in the middle of the floor. You fell over it and dropped all of the materials. After sweeping up the mess, all of the sand, iron filings and salt are mixed together. Your job now is to use the physical properties of these substances to separate the mixture and return the pure substances to their separate containers.
What physical property or properties might help you remove salt from the mixture? (2 points)
What process will you use to separate the salt from the mixture? (2 points)
What physical property of properties might help you remove iron from the mixture? (2 points)
What process will you use to separate the iron from the mixture? (2 points)
What physical property or properties might help you remove sand from the mixture? (2 points)
What process will you use to remove sand from the mixture? (2 points)
Now, list the steps that you will take to separate the three components of the mixture. Be specific enough that someone else could complete the mixture separation exactly as you have planned to do it. You may use bullet points and labeled diagrams to answer this question. (8 points, see rubric)