Year 9 Transition: Carbon Chemistry 4. Cracking

L4. Cracking

Keywords: crude oil, hydrocarbon, cracking, alkenes, catalyst
LO: To be able to describe and explain the process of cracking

ALL: state 3 uses of hydrocarbons
MOST: name and draw the first 4 alkenes
SOME: describe the process of cracking and explain how to identify between alkanes & alkenes
CHALLENGE: explain how modern life deepens on the use of hydrocarbons
S: State uses of hydrocarbons

I: What is cracking and why do we do it?

M:
A1: Alkenes

A2: Cracking
Demo + word fill

A3: Draw the structure’s

A4: identifying alkenes and alkanes

P: Define Hydrocarbon, alkane & alkene.

H/W research uses of common alkenes






Alkene sheet/molymod

DEMO cracking of paraffin see RSC sheet.
For LA print word fill



DEMO bromine water for alkanes & alkenes