C7.3 Reaction Profiles

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Pupils retrieve knowledge of exothermic and endothermic reactions, learn about the reaction profiles of exothermic and endothermic reactions, Includes: slide animations, embedded videos with link in the notes (where a video is included), learning tasks/practice.

This lesson meets the following specification point: 5.5.1.2 Reaction profiles:
Chemical reactions can occur only when reacting particles collide
with each other and with sufficient energy. The minimum amount of
energy that particles must have to react is called the activation energy. Reaction profiles can be used to show the relative energies of reactants and products, the activation energy and the overall energy change of a reaction.

Students should be able to:
• draw simple reaction profiles (energy level diagrams) for
exothermic and endothermic reactions showing the relative
energies of reactants and products, the activation energy and
the overall energy change, with a curved line to show the
energy as the reaction proceeds
• use reaction profiles to identify reactions as exothermic or
endothermic
• explain that the activation energy is the energy needed for a
reaction to occur.