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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9H: Using chemistry

QCA
About this unit

In this unit pupils:

  • find out more about how chemical reactions can be used as an energy source
  • consider how chemical reactions are used to make new materials
  • model chemical reactions as the rearrangement of atoms, and use the model to explain that matter is not lost
  • represent chemical reactions by word and/or symbol equations

In scientific enquiry pupils:

  • consider how the particle model and knowledge of gases helped change earlier ideas about burning
  • consider how scientists work together to develop a new product
  • make observations and measurements of temperature, mass and voltage
  • investigate changes in mass when magnesium burns

This unit is expected to take approximately 7 hours.


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. a. What chemical reactions take place when fuels burn?
2. b. What chemical reactions take place when fuels burn?
3. b. How else are chemical reactions used as energy resources?
4. How else are chemical reactions used as energy resources?
5. What types of new material are made through chemical reactions?
6. Checking progress
7. a. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
8. b. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
9. c. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
10. d. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
11. Reviewing work