Naming Chemical Compounds

A comprehensive, engaging, challenging and interactive lesson package designed with SEN 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

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…

• Name simple compounds ending in –ide, -hydroxide and –ate
• Name simple compounds using the mono-, di-, tri- naming system
• Be able to identify the elements present in a compound from its name
• Be able to name a compound from its formula

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.
This lesson contains AFL tasks which require mini-whiteboards but can be adapted if these are not available.