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SCHEMES OF WORK
AND LESSON PLANS
C4: The Periodic Table
VERSION 1.1 JULY 2011
Introduction
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Sample Scheme of Work
GCSE Gateway Science Chemistry B J264
Module C4: The Periodic Table
Topic: C4a Atomic structure
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SUGGESTED TEACHING AND HOMEWORK
TOPIC OUTLINE SUGGESTED RESOURCES POINTS TO NOTE
ACTIVITIES
TYPES OF PERIODIC TABLES AND LOOKING
SPECIFICALLY AT THE ATOMIC MASS, MANY
SHOW MASSES THAT ARE NOT WHOLE
NUMBERS, WHY?
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SUGGESTED TEACHING AND HOMEWORK
TOPIC OUTLINE SUGGESTED RESOURCES POINTS TO NOTE
ACTIVITIES
CANDIDATES SHOULD BE EXPLAIN TO STUDENTS THAT WE REPRESENT FOR VERY HIGH LEVEL
ABLE TO IDENTIFY METALS AS SINGLE ATOMS WHEN SHOWING CANDIDATES HAVE AN ANSWER AS
ELEMENTS AND NUMBERS THE ELEMENT FORMULAE WHEREAS MOST TO WHY THE FIRST ELECTRON
OF ATOMS OF EACH NON-METALS ARE DIATOMIC. SHELL IS FULL WITH TWO
ELEMENT FROM FORMULAE. AGAIN USING THE COUNTERS, BUT THIS TIME ELECTRONS THE SECOND IS FULL
CANDIDATES SHOULD BE ONLY USING ELECTRONS GET THE STUDENTS USE CLIPS FROM WITH EIGHT AND THE THIRD IS
ABLE TO DRAW ELECTRONIC TO DEVELOP THE ELECTRON STRUCTURES ON WWW.BBC.CO.UK/LEARNINGZONE/CLIPS/ATOMS/A AGAIN FULL WITH EIGHT. THE
STRUCTURES GIVEN ATOMIC PRE-DRAWN ELECTRON SHELLS. A GOOD WAY LL/ALL/ALL/PAGE-1.HTML? ANSWER CAN ALLOW THE
NUMBERS. OF DOING THIS IS TO HAVE AN EMPTY PERIODIC PAGESIZE=12&FORMAT=LIST STUDENTS TO SEE MORE OF THE
TABLE FOR THE FIRST TWENTY ELEMENTS AND tO HELP STUDENTS VISUALISE THE MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE
THE STUDENTS FILL IN THE ELECTRON OF ELECTRONS. STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM AND
STRUCTURES AS 2,1 OR 2,8,3. THIS SOON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF IT.
ALLOWS THEM TO SEE THAT ALL THE GROUP 1
ELEMENTS HAVE ONE ELECTRON IN THEIR
OUTER SHELL AND THAT ALL ELEMENTS IN
PERIOD THREE HAVE THREE SHELLS ETC.
HOMEWORK CAN BE PRACTICING THE SKILLS
THEY HAVE LEARNT IN THIS LESSON.
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Topic: C4b Ionic bonding
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SUGGESTED TEACHING AND HOMEWORK
TOPIC OUTLINE SUGGESTED RESOURCES POINTS TO NOTE
ACTIVITIES
SOLUBLE.
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Topic: C4c The Periodic Table and covalent bonding
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SUGGESTED TEACHING AND HOMEWORK
TOPIC OUTLINE SUGGESTED RESOURCES POINTS TO NOTE
ACTIVITIES
CANDIDATES SHOULD CANDIDATES SHOULD RESEARCH THE WORK WWW.LENNTECH.COM/PERIODIC/HISTORY/HISTO IF YOU ARE SHORT OF TIME, OR WISH
PRODUCE A TIMELINE OF OF DOBEREINER, NEWLANDS AND/OR RY-PERIODIC-TABLE.HTM DEPENDENT UPON THE TO LOOK IN MORE DETAIL DURING
EVENTS FOR THE MENDELEEV TO SEE HOW THE IDEA OF THE ABILITY OF YOUR GROUP THIS WEBSITE GIVES A LESSONS AT OTHER AREAS THIS
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODIC TABLE DEVELOPED AND THE TIMELINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC COULD BE SET AS RESEARCH
PERIODIC TABLE AND ITS MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE DURING ITS PERIODIC TABLE BUT MISSES OUT DOBEREINER. HOMEWORK FOR THE STUDENTS.
LATER CONFIRMATION. DEVELOPMENT. WWW.WOU.EDU/LAS/PHYSCI/CH412/PERHIST.HTM MAKE THE LINK TO THE
CANDIDATES SHOULD ALSO RESEARCH HOW IS A MORE DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC
LATER DISCOVERIES OF ELEMENTS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODIC TABLE. PROCESSES IN THIS ACTIVITY
PREDICTED PROPERTIES AND THE DISCOVERY WWW.RSC.ORG/EDUCATION/TEACHERS/RESOUR ILLUSTRATING HOW SCIENTIFIC
OF ATOMIC MASS AND NUMBER CONFIRMED CES/PERIODICTABLE/ IS HOWEVER AN IDEAS DEVELOPED AND CHANGED
THE IDEAS PUT FORWARD BY THE PERIODIC EXCELLENT RESOURCE THAT STUDENTS CAN OVER TIME WITH EACH NEW PIECE
TABLE. WORK THROUGH TO GAIN A VERY CLEAR OF EVIDENCE AND HOW THESE IDEAS
UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY AND ONLY BECOME ACCEPTED AFTER
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODIC TABLE. TESTING BY THE LARGER SCIENTIFIC
COMMUNITY.
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Topic: C4d The Group 1 Elements
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Topic: C4e The Group 7 Elements
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Topic: C4f The transition elements
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Topic: C4h Purifying and testing water
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Sample Lesson Plan
GCSE Gateway Science Chemistry B J264
Module C4: The Periodic Table
OCR recognises that the teaching of this qualification above will vary greatly from school to school and
from teacher to teacher. With that in mind this lesson plan is offered as a possible approach but will be
subject to modifications by the individual teacher.
Some students may have covered aspects of atomic theory before, but there is usually a wow factor when
the size and areas of emptiness within an atom are first given to the students. An explanation of the amount
of atoms implied by the Avogadro number also is usually met by disbelief.
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Time Learning activities
in Resources Assessment
mins Teacher Pupil
Introduction/Starter
5 Ask the students individually or in pairs to draw Individually or in pairs students draw their picture of the atom, Whiteboards What have the
what they think an atom looks like up close, ask some will have little or no idea, some may have a more realistic students
them what shape the various parts are and ask idea remembered
them to label these parts from KS3 and
what is their prior
knowledge
Main
Whiteboards How far can the
5 Introduce the words electron, proton and neutron. Students label their diagrams and predict the charges on these
students explain
Ask the students if they have not already done so particles, dependent upon their ability they could also predict the atomic structure.
to label the parts of their diagrams with these masses, why have they made these predictions?
terms.
Dependent upon the ability of the group it might be
possible to introduce some of the properties of
these particles.
5 Explain that the structure of the atom as we know Students split into groups of four and agree their roles, then http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/at
it has developed over many years with each begin to research their specific discovery oms/all/all/all/page-1.html?
pagesize=12&format=list is a good
discovery the model changed. Explain to the
introduction to the research
students they are going to research single
discoveries and present back to the class their
finding in a three minute presentation.
Split the students up into groups of four, two
researchers, one person to set up the presentation
and one person to deliver it. Stress they are all
working together on this as they all need to
understand each part.
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Time Learning activities
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20 Question the students as they research the work Research and prepare their presentations for the rest of the http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize Can the students
ensuring they are all involved class /science/add_gateway/periodictable/atom work as a group
srev1.shtml gives good background
with defined roles
information.
to prepare a
http://dl.clackamas.edu/ch104-
presentation
04/dalton's.htm is a good introduction to
Dalton
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/mod
ule_viewer.php?mid=50 is a good
introduction to J. J. Thompson
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/timeline/page
s/1911.html is a good introduction to
Rutherford
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/lig
ht/bohr.html is a good introduction to Bohr.
All of these sites however are
interchangeable as they each have
information on all the scientists and how
the theories are interlinked, so the
students will gain insight into the other
discoveries as they do their own research
15 Be prepared to probe the students with questions Present their three minute presentations to rest of class. When Whiteboard Assess how well
if they do not get questions from the rest of the not presenting they should be making notes or questioning students have
class to check their understanding others who are presenting A summary from each group can be researched and
posted on a timeline on the board/wall their
understanding of
the
developments.
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Time Learning activities
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Homework:
Timeline
Key words:
Periodic, Dalton, J. J. Thompson, Rutherford and Bohr
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