The Law of Conservation of Mass

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

Lesson resources contain:
In-built challenge tasks throughout
In-built scaffolded learning for lower abilities
AFL activities to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources

Objectives:
Students will be able to…

• Define the law of conservation of mass
• Explain why the mass of a chemical reaction does not change in a closed system
• Predict/calculate the mass of reactants and products in a chemical reaction when given the masses of the other reactants/products

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.