A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about the reactions of alkali metals and water (specifically group 1). Learners will be able to explain the reactivity with regards to shielding. Learning objective: Explain the reactivity of group 1 metals with water and justify the reason for this reactivity. By the end of the lesson learners should be able to: Success criteria: Identify the products produced when metal and water react. Describe the order of reactivity in group 1 metals. Explain the dangers of Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium. Powerpoint contains 45 slides (some slide-by-slide animations)

A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about how salts can be made by reacting a metal oxide and base. Students will be able to name salts or determine the reactants that form them, balance equations regarding salts and for a high ability stretch use moles in order to calculate the needed masses of reactants to react completely. Progress checks are available following each success criteria Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner. Learning objective: Justify how specific salts can be synthesised with reference to amounts. By the end of the lesson learners should be able to: Success criteria: Identify the products / reactants of an acid-base reaction. Describe how to balance equations. Explain why equations must be balanced. Powerpoint contains 21 slides. Some prior information is needed for understanding chemical formulae in the later parts of the lesson.