Target level
Year 9 Unit 2 Metals & Metal Reactions
Aim: ‘What will I be learning?’
How metals, metal carbonates and metal oxides react with acids
How to test for gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen
How metals can be placed into a reactivity series based on their reactions
How to represent chemical reactions by word and symbol equations
Objectives: ‘How will I be learning?’
By carrying out experiments and looking for patterns in reactions
By using word and symbol equations to represent reactions
Date
Current level
Teacher comment
Date
Interim level
Key words
Metal
Non metal
Metal salt
Metal oxide
Metal carbonate
Displacement
Alkali metal
Word equation
Hydrochloric acid
Literacy
Describe your observations and
patterns in your results
Hydrogen
Carbon dioxide
Oxygen
Reactivity series
Nitrates
Chlorides
Sulfates
Symbol equation
Sulfuric acid
Numeracy
Balance symbol equations to
show that mass is conserved
Date
Final level
Pupil comment
Lesson
Levels
4
5
6
7
Metal or non-metal?
Metals & acids
1
Know the properties
of most metals; good
conductors of heat
and electricity, shiny,
strong, high melting
and boiling points
Know the properties
of most non-metals;
poor conductors of
heat and electricity,
dull, brittle, low
melting and boiling
points
Know about a range of
metals, their uses and
where they are found
2
Know that some metals
react with acids to form
metal salts and release
hydrogen and carry out a
test for hydrogen
Metal carbonates &
acids
3
Know that acids react
with metal carbonates,
producing carbon dioxide
and a metal salt
Metal oxides & acids
Metal salts
Alkali metals
Reactivity
Displacement
4
5
6
Know that acids react
with metal oxides,
producing a metal salt
and water
Know that when an alkali
is added to an acid,
neutralisation takes place
Know that some
metals react with
cold water to
produce hydrogen
7
Know that some
metals react more
readily with acids than
others
8
Know that a metal
will displace a less
reactive metal from a
metal salt solution
Identify patterns in
reactions between
metals and acids and use
patterns in reactions to
make predictions about
other reactions
Understand that
production of new
materials and energy
changes are evidence of
chemical reactions
Understand that
production of the salt is
evidence of a chemical
reaction
Describe how to obtain a
neutral solution from an
acid and an alkali
Know that some
metals react more
readily with water
than others e.g.
potassium is highly
reactive
Carry out experiments
to determine which
metals are the most
and least reactive
Use the reactivity
series to determine
whether a metal will
displace another
from a solution
Represent the reactions
of metals with acids by
word equations
Represent the reactions
of metal carbonates with
acids by word equations
Represent reactions of
acids with metal oxides
by word equations
Represent the reactions
of metals with acids by
balanced symbol
equations
Represent the reactions
of metal carbonates with
acids by balanced symbol
equations
Represent reactions of
acids with metal oxides
by balanced symbol
equations
Know that there are many
different salts and many
are useful compounds e.g.
sodium chloride
Know which salts are
made from which acids
e.g. nitric acid makes
nitrates
Represent reactions
of water with
metals by word
equations
Represent reactions
of water with
metals by balanced
symbol equations
Place a selection of
metals into an ordered
list called a ‘reactivity
series’
Use your knowledge of
the reactivity series to
make predictions
about other metals
Represent
displacement
reactions by word
equations
Represent
displacement
reactions by
balanced symbol
equations