Year-8 Chemistry Periodic Table: Groups and Periods
In this Year-8 Chemistry Periodic Table: Groups and Periods lesson, students will use data patterns to predict the properties of elements and explain what is meant by a group and a period.
The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.
This lesson includes:
- Title slide with learning objectives
- A starter activity
- Group reading (literacy)
- Keywords (vocabulary: groups, periods, transition metal, reactivity, atomic mass and atomic radius)
- Labeling exercise
- Task boxes
- Discussion exercise
- Data interpretation (numeracy) with graph drawing extension
- Answer slides included for self-assessment
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