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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9H: Using chemistry

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Objectives

Section 1: a. What chemical reactions take place when fuels burn?
Children should learn:
  • that fuels burn and release energy
  • that when fuels containing hydrogen and carbon burn, water, carbon dioxide and sometimes carbon monoxide and carbon are formed
  • to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of a fuel

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Section 2: b. What chemical reactions take place when fuels burn?
Children should learn:
  • to apply knowledge and understanding of burning to an everyday context

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Section 3: b. How else are chemical reactions used as energy resources?
Children should learn:
  • that other chemical reactions can be used as sources of energy
  • about ways in which these reactions can be used
  • about the effect of different aspects of formality in writing, eg passive verbs, third person, abstract nouns

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Section 4: How else are chemical reactions used as energy resources?
Children should learn:
  • that displacement reactions involving metals produce energy
  • that the energy from these reactions can be used
  • to link energy produced in displacement reactions to differences of reactivity of metals

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Section 5: What types of new material are made through chemical reactions?
Children should learn:
  • about the range of materials made through chemical reactions
  • about the stages of development of a new product

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Section 6: Checking progress
Children should learn:
  • how chemical reactions are used

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Section 7: a. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
Children should learn:
  • to use preliminary work to decide on appropriate apparatus
  • that mass is conserved in chemical reactions
  • that atoms combine in different ways as a result of chemical reactions

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Section 8: b. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
Children should learn:
  • that when gases are formed in reactions, mass may appear to decrease because the gas escapes
  • that mass is also conserved in dissolving and changes of state

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Section 9: c. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
Children should learn:
  • that the oxide weighs more than the element from which it was made
  • to plot a graph and use it to obtain quantitative data
  • that predictable masses of the oxide can be formed from given masses of magnesium

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Section 10: d. What happens to atoms and molecules when new materials are made?
Children should learn:
  • that carbon dioxide and water are formed when a compound containing both carbon and hydrogen is burned
  • that the carbon dioxide and water formed escape into the atmosphere
  • that mass is conserved when materials burn
  • to select relevant information and link it to other information
  • that sometimes new evidence requires changes to theories

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Section 11: Reviewing work
Children should learn:
  • to recognise the variety in chemical reactions
  • to make some generalisations about reactions

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Sections in this unit

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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