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Year 8 · Spring First Half

Chemistry

4 lessons from 2 units.

Unit C5 · lessons 4 to 5 of 5

Types of reaction

Most of the reactions you will ever meet are one of a small number of kinds. This unit is about four of them — what each one does, what it needs, and how to tell which one you are looking at when nobody says.

Unit C6 · lessons 1 to 2 of 7

Acids and alkalis

An acid and an alkali are not things you can see, weigh or smell. They are things a substance does — to a dye, to a metal, to each other — and this unit is about reading those behaviours, predicting them, and using them on purpose.

  1. 04DisplacementProcessAn iron nail in blue solution comes out plated with copper. Two metals swapped places — and which way round they swap is never a matter of chance.Open this lesson
  2. 05Which reaction is this?ClassifyFour types, and nobody labels them for you. What do you look at first — and what do you do with a reaction that fits none of them?Open this lesson
  3. 01Acids and alkalisClassifyTwo clear, colourless liquids. One will strip the skin off your hand and the other is safe to drink — and nothing you can see tells you which is which.Open this lesson
  4. 02The pH scale and indicatorsModelA dye squeezed out of a boiled cabbage can tell you something about a liquid that no amount of looking at it will. What is it actually reading?Open this lesson

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