Metals and Non-metals, Properties Explained Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Escape Room

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on the properties of metals and non - metals for middle school, plus an enjoyable and challenging escape room lesson to consolidate learning.

The lesson 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 in 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. There are three differentiated and engaging homeworks which can also be used as classwork if so desired.

The game is closely related to the topic content and reinforces learning. Students must work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school storeroom where Thumper the school rat has been locked accidentally without food and water.

What’s Covered

• Metals are conductors of electricity and heat while non - metals are insulators.
• Metals are strong (have high tensile strength) but non - metals are not.
• Metals are shiny when freshly cut or polished but non -metals are dull.
• Metals are sonorous (make a ringing noise when struck while non – metals do not.
• Metals are malleable (can be beaten into shape) and ductile (can be drawn into wires) but non – metals are neither and are brittle (shatter when struck.
• Iron, nickel and cobalt are magnetic but all non – metals are not magnetic.
• Metals are heavy which means they have a high have a high density because they contain a lot of particles. Non – metals are not heavy.
• Metals are all solids at room temperature, except for mercury which is a liquid, as they have high boiling and melting points. Of seventeen non - metals, all are gases except for five which are solids and one which is a liquid.
• Both metals are non – metals burn in oxygen to form the oxide.
• Metal oxides are alkaline and non -metal oxides are acidic.

What’s Included for Each Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• 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

Escape Room

• PowerPoint – scene setting and instructions (sound effects and built-in timer);
• crossword;
• word search;
• dominoes activity;
• worksheet;
• code breaker sheet;
• answers;
• lesson plan.

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