Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions

A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with AEN students and non-science/non-chemistry specialist teachers in mind!

This lesson contains:

• Lesson powerpoint - including teacher notes and answers in “notes” section
• Student led lesson worksheet
• Teacher answer sheet
• Risk assessment for class practicals
• Printable practical instruction cards
• Risk assessments for teacher demonstrations

Lesson resources contain:

• In-built challenge tasks throughout
• In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
• Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources

Objectives:
Students will be able to…

• Describe what an exothermic and endothermic reactions is in terms of heat energy transfer
• Give and identify examples of endothermic and exothermic reactions in everyday life
• Identify reactions as exothermic or endothermic from measuring temperature changes in practical investigations

This lesson contains a student led lesson sheet, with the focus being on students learning through doing and practicing skills and identifying patterns and reasons themselves. Resources and slides ask students the key questions and develops ideas and concepts from the ground up and address common issues, mistakes and misconceptions.