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Representing chemical reactions
| 11–14 years
Everything you need to teach representing chemical reactions
Prepare
FeatureDemystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
CourseQuantitative chemistry | Self-led course
Build confidence in your quantitative chemistry knowledge and discover effective topic-specific teaching strategies
Deliver
ResourceC, O and Co | Johnstone’s triangle | 11–14 years
Develop your learners’ understanding of symbols and formulas at different conceptual levels by comparing the symbolic representations of carbon monoxide and cobalt
ResourceSymbols and formulas | Developing understanding | 11–14 years
Develop your learners’ understanding of what is represented by symbols and chemical formulas
ResourceWord equations | Developing understanding | 11–14 years
Use this worksheet to improve your learners’ understanding of writing and interpreting word equations
ResourceSodium and chlorine reaction | Johnstone’s triangle | 11–14 years
Strengthen learners’ understanding of the connection between word equations and chemical reactions
ResourceRepresenting chemical reactions | Structure strip | 11–14 years
Use scaffolded prompts to support learners to write about representing chemical reactions
Class experimentIron and sulfur reaction
Illustrate elements, mixtures and compounds with this demonstration and class practical exploring the exothermic reaction of iron and sulfur
ResourceDecomposition reactions | 11–14 years
Differentiated worksheets guide learners to consider word equations, symbol equations and conservation of mass linked to simple decomposition reactions
Exhibition chemistryThe reaction between sodium and chlorine
Use this to demonstrate this classic and spectacular chemistry experiment
Class experimentHeating copper in air
Explore the reaction of copper with oxygen to produce copper oxide by heating a copper envelope in this practical
Enrich
Games and puzzlesCompounds ending in -ate | Gridlocks puzzle | 11–14 years
Reinforce your students’ understanding of compounds ending in -ate using these sudoku-style puzzles, with printable worksheets and answers
Games and puzzlesNaming binary compounds | Gridlocks puzzle | 11–14 years
Reinforce your students’ understanding of naming binary compounds using these sudoku-style puzzles, with printable worksheets and answers
FeatureDecomposition in daily life
Introduce your students to some applications of decomposition reactions: clean energy, bleach and baking
Overview resources for Introducing chemical change | 11–14 years
Discover more chemistry teaching resources to support 11–14 learners with chemical changes