Making salts - KS3 Activate lesson

A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 7 class.
This is the 5th and final lesson in “Chapter 4 - Acids and Alkalis” from Activate 1, Chemistry.
This lesson should be suitable to teach to any KS3 Chemistry class, even by those where Chemistry is not their specialism.
This lesson includes a practical demo (a magic trick with “water” into “wine”) and a class practical activity (using litmus paper to test different household solutions).

From this lesson, students should be able to:

• Recall the general word equation for a neutralisation reaction
• Name the salts produced in reactions with acids
• Complete word equations for specific neutralisation reactions
• Complete word equations for the reactions between a metal and an acid

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task