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Plate boundaries - differentiated tasks
Low ability - fill in the gaps activity with the first letter of each missing word
Middle ability - fill in the gaps
High ability - explain themselves
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Chromatography KS3
Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: summaries what separation techniques students have learnt about so far
Main: Define and explain chromatography
Show students a chromatogram and discuss what we can learn from it
Practical: carry out an investigation to see who wrote the note, work sheet to complete whilst chromatogram is developing
Extension: What effect does each mistake make
Plenary: Exam question
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Simple Distillation KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: would you drink dirty water, how do you think you could clean it?
Main: SMSC link to how many people dont have clean water, fill in SMSC grid based on video
Explain simple distillaation and equiptment, label diagram of equiptment
Watch distillation demo
Bronze/ Gold task to explain distillation
Extension task available on powerpoint
Plenary: Exam question
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C3.3 Ionic bonding - foundation
Aimed at a lower ability class
Starter Activity
Ions recap, what charge do elements have in different groups
Stretch question to think about how group 1 and 2 will interact with group 6 and 7
Main –
Go through the video and answer the questions, go through answers
Practice drawing ionic compounds Extension: explain the difference between KBr and K2O
Go through the answers which are on the slides
Exam question practice to move onto if have a chance
Plenary
4 mark exam question – peer assess
Good to show the detail they need in their answers
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Fractional distillation KS3
Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: work out the link between the pictures
Main: Explain what crude oil is and what fractional distillation is
Watch video, answer questions, green pen mark questions
Complete level 1/2/3 worksheets explaining fractional distillation
Extension: research task linking SMSC and crude oil
Plenary: What problems would we encounter if we banned all crude oil now
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History of the periodic table KS3
Differentiated retrieval starter questions.
Go through answers
Main –
Add periodic table to key words, watch video about history of periodic table
Using differentiated sheets, create timeline of history of the periodic table
Label modern periodic table and answer questions
Plenary
Carton elements – identify the carton character
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Dissolving KS3
Aimed at mixed ability year 8 class
Starter: Add key terms to diagram, using key words for the lesson
Main: Define key words and explain solubility
Practical: see if different compounds are soluble or not
Then draw particle pictures of what happens when a substance is dissolving
Plenary: Tweet one thing students learnt today
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C1.1 atoms
Aimed at a mixed ability year 9 class. Some worksheet from other areas on TES
Starter
Stick in objective sheets for this topic, also stick in common formulae sheets
6 true or false questions – green pen mark
Main –
Think, pair, share – what is an atom? Share ideas, write a sentence to explain what an atoms is. Extension task to label an atoms (level 6 objective) but there is a lesson on the structure of the atom later in this topic
Copy definitions for element/compound/mixture onto worksheet. Then cut up pictures and decide if they are a compound element of mixture
Extension: find the element to spell the cartoon characters worksheet
Identify atoms/elements and name formula worksheet - green pen mark
Extension: write the name of the formulae
Plenary
Whiteboards out, write down the symbol for the elements I shout
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Elements and compounds KS3
Elements, compounds and mixtures- Some resources are from other areas on TES
Targeted at year 8 mixed ability class.
Starter: 5 minutes timed activity, challenege to see how many words students can make from the periodic table
Main: Go over definitons of elements/compounds/mixtures.
Then use these definitons to identify which particle pictures are elements/compounds
Go over rules of particle diagrams, then a choice of higher or lower ability sheet.
Higher ability sheet: students need to draw particle diagrams
lower ability sheet: students need to identify the correct particle picture
Extension: Worksheet, including tasks such as identifying elements, a fill in the gaps activity, 6 mark practicce question to explain the difference between elements/compounds/mictures
Plenary: Break the code using the periodic tab;e
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C11.3 greenhouse gases
Aimed at foundation students, targets of level 4
Starter: differentiated bronze/silver/gold starter questions with answers
Main:
Draw the greenhouse effect using info from powerpoint. extension question to challenge students
Fact hunt: questions to answer using textbook
Video on deforestation, questions to answer from video
Plenary: animated true/false statements
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C11.5 atmospheric pollutants
aimed at foundation level 4 targets
Differentiated bronze/silver/gold starter
Main: recap complete and incomplete combustion, put piece of pot over blue/yellow flame on bunsen burner
Students fill in worksheet, to say what they saw and the difference between incomplete and complete combustion
Students fill in information grid using textbooks, to find the causes of the atmospheric pollutants and the problems with them
Answers for students to check their answers with
Bundle
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C11 - The earths atmosphere
All resources aimed at foundation students
C11.1 + C11.2 combined into one lesson
C11.3 greenhouse gases
C11.4 global climate change
C11.5 atmospheric pollutants
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Potable water differentiated worksheet
Bronze/silver/gold differentiated worksheets
To show how potable water is made
Aimed at low ability students
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C12. treating waste water
For low ability students. targets level 4
Starter: differentiated stater based on prior learning of the topic
answers on following slide
Main: think pair share: where do we get waste water from
video: watch a video, try and pick out what the stages of treatment for waste water are
differentiated worksheets, to explain the process of waste water treatment
Extension: differentiated extension questions
Plenary: copy and complete two sentences
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C12.6 reduce reuse recycle
Aimed at low ability students, targets of level 4s
Starter: recap on stages of LCA
Main: link up key words to defintions for three R’s
Pictures on board of different items, what are they made of ? can they be recycled?
Discuss three R’s with students
using textbooks students then make an information sheet using the success criteria on the powerpoint
Plenary: 6 mark question about the the three r’s
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C3.1 States of matter - Foundation
Aimed at a foundation class
Starter Activity
Draw what they can remember about the states of matter, go through what the particle pictures should look like
Main –
Complete worksheet on properties of solids, liquids and gases - differentiated versions
Stick in particle diagrams – students add labels and arrows to show what the state changes are. Then use textbooks and what we have discussed to describe what happens to the particles during changes of state.
Explain cooling curves, students fill in the blanks on their cooling curve
Extension for students looking at cooling and heating curves and melting and boiling points
Plenary
Little quiz to finish with
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C3.2 atoms into ions - Foundation
aimed at a lower ability class
Starter Activity
Identify the atom on the board
Stretch – how do you know which atom it is
Main –
Recap how to find out electron/proton/neutron numbers and how to draw electron configuration. Think pair share, what can the two atoms do to have full outer shells
Students explain in their books what a positive and negative ion is
3 quick questions – green pen mark
Go through rules so we always know the charges of common ions
Worksheet to complete – label periodic table with rules and then practice drawing ions
Extension: describe and explain how ions are formed
Plenary
Exam question plenary – peer assess
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C3.5 covalent bonding - foundation
aimed at a lower ability class
Starter Activity
Mark homework
Main –
Think pair share – spot the difference between ionic and covalent bonding. Then write down definition of covalent bonding
Watch video, only watch until 2 minutes. Answer questions whilst video is going. Goo through and green pen answers after
Go through the two examples on the board and show what happens
Students then have a go at completing their worksheet to show covalent bonds
Extension: decide if the compounds are ionic or covalent and explain how they know
Plenary
Plenary, fill in the gaps and go over answers
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C3.4 Giant ionic structures - foundation
aimed at a lower ability class
Starter Activity
Using previous knowledge make predictions about ionic compounds
Main –
Go through and discuss giant ionic lattices
Students move around the room to find the information sheet to find out if there prediction was correct or not and why
Practical with a dissolved ionic compound to show it can conduct electricity. Make sure say that molten ionic compounds too and what a molten ionic compound is
Plenary
Exam question plenary