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Simple Distillation KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: would you drink dirty water, how do you think you could clean it?
Main: SMSC link to how many people dont have clean water, fill in SMSC grid based on video
Explain simple distillaation and equiptment, label diagram of equiptment
Watch distillation demo
Bronze/ Gold task to explain distillation
Extension task available on powerpoint
Plenary: Exam question
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Plate boundaries - differentiated tasks
Low ability - fill in the gaps activity with the first letter of each missing word
Middle ability - fill in the gaps
High ability - explain themselves
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Dissolving KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: Add key terms to diagram, using key words for the lesson
Main: Define key words and explain solubility
Practical: see if different compounds are soluble or not
Then draw particle pictures of what happens when a substance is dissolving
Plenary: Tweet one thing students learnt today
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Elements and compounds KS3
Elements, compounds and mixtures- Some resources are from other areas on TES
Targeted at year 8 mixed ability class.
Starter: 5 minutes timed activity, challenege to see how many words students can make from the periodic table
Main: Go over definitons of elements/compounds/mixtures.
Then use these definitons to identify which particle pictures are elements/compounds
Go over rules of particle diagrams, then a choice of higher or lower ability sheet.
Higher ability sheet: students need to draw particle diagrams
lower ability sheet: students need to identify the correct particle picture
Extension: Worksheet, including tasks such as identifying elements, a fill in the gaps activity, 6 mark practicce question to explain the difference between elements/compounds/mictures
Plenary: Break the code using the periodic tab;e
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Fractional distillation KS3
Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: work out the link between the pictures
Main: Explain what crude oil is and what fractional distillation is
Watch video, answer questions, green pen mark questions
Complete level 1/2/3 worksheets explaining fractional distillation
Extension: research task linking SMSC and crude oil
Plenary: What problems would we encounter if we banned all crude oil now
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Chromatography KS3
Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: summaries what separation techniques students have learnt about so far
Main: Define and explain chromatography
Show students a chromatogram and discuss what we can learn from it
Practical: carry out an investigation to see who wrote the note, work sheet to complete whilst chromatogram is developing
Extension: What effect does each mistake make
Plenary: Exam question
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Solubility at different temperatures KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: Write a hypothesis for what students think will happen to the amount of a solute that can dissolve as temperature increases
Main: Practical, have different water baths, see how much sodium bicarbonate dissolves at each temperature
Record results on worksheet
Differentiated worksheet higher or lower ability. Once completed practical evaluation and conclusion on each practical. Different tasks for higher and lower ability students
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C11.1 History of our atmosphere
Aimed at foundation students. targets of level 4
Information about how the earths atmosphere was created, then a story board for students to fill in using questions from the version on the board.
Extension questions included to challenge students
extension sheet if students finish.
6 mark question on this topic for students to practice exam technique as a plenary
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C11.3 greenhouse gases
Aimed at foundation students, targets of level 4
Starter: differentiated bronze/silver/gold starter questions with answers
Main:
Draw the greenhouse effect using info from powerpoint. extension question to challenge students
Fact hunt: questions to answer using textbook
Video on deforestation, questions to answer from video
Plenary: animated true/false statements
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C11.5 atmospheric pollutants
aimed at foundation level 4 targets
Differentiated bronze/silver/gold starter
Main: recap complete and incomplete combustion, put piece of pot over blue/yellow flame on bunsen burner
Students fill in worksheet, to say what they saw and the difference between incomplete and complete combustion
Students fill in information grid using textbooks, to find the causes of the atmospheric pollutants and the problems with them
Answers for students to check their answers with
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Melting points KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: which chocolate do you think is the most pure?
Main: explain what is meant by pure
carry out a practical to melt different chocolates to work out which is most pure and how we know that
plenary: questions to evaluate the practical
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C12.6 reduce reuse recycle
Aimed at low ability students, targets of level 4s
Starter: recap on stages of LCA
Main: link up key words to defintions for three R’s
Pictures on board of different items, what are they made of ? can they be recycled?
Discuss three R’s with students
using textbooks students then make an information sheet using the success criteria on the powerpoint
Plenary: 6 mark question about the the three r’s
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C12.5 Life cycle assessments
Aimed at low ability students, targets level 4
Starter: differentiated starter questions
Main: watch the video about a yogurt pot,thin about its journey
fill in grid showing the different stages of the LCA use textbooks to support
Class vote - which do they think is the most enviromentally damaging paper or plastic bags
Carry out LCA of paper and plastic bags using textbooks
evaluate which they think is most enviromentally damaging
Plenary: question to list the stages of the LCA
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C7.1 exothermic and endothermic reactions
Aimed at foundation students - Does not include required practical
Starter - B3 retrieval starter practice
Main –
Think pair share (+write down) how can you tell if a chemical reaction has taken place?
Copy key facts about conservation of energy
Explain endo/exo thermic and students fill in vocab labs
Find uses and examples of endothermic/exothermic reactions then complete exam questions
Mark exam questions, students green pen
Plenary
Plenary – what have you learnt today
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Lab equipment worksheet
A worksheet with common lab equipment for students to fill in as they are introduced to the lab.
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C12 revision sheet
C12 - the earths resources summary sheet
Aimed at students with targets of level 4’s
page numbers are from CGP foundation revision guide
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C11 Summary sheet
aimed at students with targets of level 4
page numbers refer to pages in CGP foundation revision guide
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Compounds
Suitable for KS3
Includes:
Introduction to compounds
Particle diagrams of elements and compounds
Naming compounds with two and three elements
Mini practical to compare elements and compounds
All answers included
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Pure and Impure
Suitable for KS3
Includes:
Recall starter
Pure and impure including particle diagrams
Pure and impure boiling points
practical investigation to investigate purity