Representing elements and compounds | Developing understanding | 14–16 years

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Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

Explore a variety of visual representations from particle models to chemical formulas

Developing understanding is a series of worksheets that encourage learners to connect their thinking at the macroscopic, sub-microscopic and symbolic levels. In this worksheet, learners are encouraged to think how elements and compounds can be visualised in diagrams and through symbols and formulas and what this means at the sub-microscopic level.

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