Learning objective

Knowledge

  • To describe the process of evaporation.

Success criteria

Knowledge

  • I can define

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National curriculum

Science

Properties and changes

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: The water cycle and ask the children to identify: Examples of water as a solid, liquid or gas. Examples of a change of state. Click on each label and read the captions to discuss the information as a class.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could be allocated the ‘mixtures’ section on the Knowledge organiser to revise; could use the question prompts on slide 2 of the Presentation: Revision to write the revision questions. 

Pupils working at greater depth

Should answer the question: What weather conditions will increase the rate of evaporation? (warm weather, dry weather and windy weather); could be allocated the ‘solutions’ or ‘factors affecting dissolving’ section on the Knowledge organiser to revise; could choose an extension activity from the Resource: Stretch and challenge: Mixtures and separation.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: defining the term evaporation

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Knowledge outcomes

  • I can define evaporating as a liquid turning into a gas.
  • I can explain how evaporating separates solutions because the liquid part evaporates, leaving behind the dissolved solid.
  • I can identify that evaporating should be used to separate solutions.

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Vocabulary definitions

  • crystallising

    A dissolved solid reforming.

  • evaporation

    When a liquid changes into a gas.

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