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A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 2nd lesson in “Chapter 3 - Metals and other materials" from Activate 2, Chemistry. This lesson is on 'metals and oxygen’.
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.
This lesson contains a guided practical demonstration (reacting zinc, magnesium and copper with oxygen) with completed risk assessment and list of materials needed.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

• Recall that when metals react with oxygen, a metal oxide is formed.
• Name the metal oxide formed when a specific metal reacts with oxygen.
• Write word equations for the reactions between a metal and oxygen.
• Recall that gold is unreactive, and does not burn / react with oxygen.
• Use observations when metals react with oxygen to determine their relative reactivity.

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