Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. Keeping this in mind, under the Science topic ‘Separation of Matter’ Presidians of Grade 6 explored various methods of separating the substances. Building up on the same concept, sieving, filtration, centrifugation and evaporation was demonstrated in the class. Students enjoyed the activity and participated enthusiastically.  Overall, the activity involved science aptitude which lead to accomplishment of the task, at the same time they developed understanding of separation of matter. By the end of the activity, they were able to understand the concept of separation very well.