Year-8 Chemistry Periodic Table: Metals and Non-Metals
In this Year-8 Chemistry Periodic Table: Metals and Non-Metals lesson, students will describe the properties of metals. Next, students locate metals on the periodic table and then explain the meaning of the term ‘metalloid’.
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: metal, non-metal, metalloid, malleable, ductile and sonorous)
- Task boxes
- Comprehension task
- Oxidation reactions (recap from year 7 and as an example of how metals and non-metals react differently
- Answer slides included for self-assessment
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