Writing Word Equations

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
• Various activites to assess progress and understanding that you can tailor to fit any class or available resources

Objectives:
Students will be able to…

• Identify reactants and products in a word equation
• Write word equations for different reactions
• Turn word equations into sentences
• Describe and explain why we use word equations in chemistry

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.