Activities:
- Bouncing Eggs
- Lollipop RedOx
- Internal Engine combustion
- Does it precipitate?
Conceptual Understandings: “The whole is more than the sum of its individual parts” (Aristotle)
Learning Objectives:
Atoms of different elements combine in fixed ratios to form compounds, which have different properties from their component elements. Elements and/or compounds can react with each other when specific conditions are met.
The “driving force” for a chemical reaction must be (at least) one of the following:
- Formation of solid
- Formation of water
- Color change
- Formation of gas
Vocabulary:
- Elements
- Compounds
- Mixture
- Precipitate/precipitation
- Crystallisation
- Solution
- Saturated/unsaturated solution
- Chemical Reaction
- Reactants/Products
- Conservation of mass
