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A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 7th and final lesson in “Chapter 1 - The periodic table" from Activate 2, Chemistry. This lesson is on 'elements in group 0’.
This lesson should be suitable to teach to any KS3 Chemistry class, even by those where Chemistry is not their specialism.
This lesson (and all lessons in this unit) is designed to be interactive and engaging, with plenty of real world examples and independent tasks.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

• Recall that group 0 elements are known as the noble gases
• Describe the physical properties of the group 0 elements (colourless gases, low melting point, low boiling point)
• Describe the trend in the melting points and boiling points of the group 0 elements as you go down the group
• Predict the melting points and boiling points of group 0 elements from missing data using ideas about patterns
• Recall a chemical property of noble gases (they are unreactive)
• Describe some uses of noble gases
• Explain how the properties of noble gases make them useful

All of my lessons contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes and whiteboard quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task