Periodic Table REVISION (GCSE)

This revision lesson contains a motivating and engaging powerpoint (67 slides) and associated worksheets which have been designed to challenge student knowledge of the Periodic Table. The lesson involves a wide range of activities which include exam questions with clear answers to allow students to self-assess, quiz competitions and differentiated tasks. The students will enjoy the transitions between the different activities whilst crucially being able to evaluate their understanding of this key topic in Chemistry. Deliberately, the lesson hasn’t been written for any particular exam board or exclusively for Combined Science or Chemistry, but instead it covers the topics which are shown below and this will allow teachers to pick and choose which parts they want to do in a particular lesson.

• Properties of the alkali metals (group I)
• Properties of the halogens (group VII)
• Properties of the noble gases (group 0)
• Formation of ionic compounds between group I and VII elements
• Reactivity of the alkali metals and the halogens
• Displacement reactions of the halogens
• The transition elements
• Organisation of the Periodic Table
• Predicting properties of the unknown or rare elements

As the title suggests, the content of this lesson has been written to be GCSE standard and therefore is most suitable for use with 14 - 16 year olds. However, it could be used with younger students who are doing work on the topic and want to challenge themselves