Kinetic Theory of Matter - States of Matter and Change of State - Fully Resourced lesson Plus Wildcard and Snap Card Games KS3

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on the kinetic theory of matter including change of state, gas pressure and diffusion for middle school plus a pack of cards for enjoyable and challenging games of wildcard or snap.

The teaching pack contains eighteen resources and it is intended that the teacher uses them to build their own unique lesson to take account of student ability and time available. Literacy, oracy, self-assessment and peer assessment are all built i to the resources. These features are clearly marked on the comprehensive one-page flow chart lesson plan which shows where the logical choices between resources can be made.

The game is closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning.

** What’s Covered**

• Three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas.
• Arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases.
• Properties of solids, liquids and gases in terms of the arrangement of their particles.
• Change of state including sublimation.
• Pressure in gases and the effect of increasing the number of particles and temperature and decreasing volume.
• Diffusion

What’s Included

Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint (x3)
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Game

• 78 playing cards
• Animated PowerPoint with instructions for playing wildcard and snap

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