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A full 1 hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 8 class.
This is the 3rd lesson in “Chapter 1 - The periodic table" from Activate 2, Chemistry. This lesson is on ‘chemical properties of metals and non-metals’.
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:

• Define the term ‘chemical properties’
• Recall that metal oxides form when a metal reacts with oxygen
• Recall that metal oxides are solids at room temperature and basic
• Recall that non-metal oxides form when a non-metal reacts with oxygen
• Recall that non-metal oxides are gases at room temperature and dissolve in water to form acidic solutions
• Describe the harmful effects of acid rain on the environment

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