Properties resources

Students read some information about testing the absorbency of different papers. They outline two features that need to be kept the same if the tests were to be fair.

For this practical task students use their knowledge about the properties of gases to explain their observations when they blow up a balloon that is inside a bottle and a balloon that is not inside a bottle.

Students use a table on solubility/insolubility of 16 compounds to determine the validity of four statements and justify with evidence from the table.

Information on particle size and boiling point is provided for three alcohols. Students use this to place these substances in order of particle size and increasing boiling point.

Students are asked one multiple-choice and one short answer question about fair testing.

Students are provided with a table that gives them some properties of five different materials. They answer four short answer questions that involve interpreting information from the table.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students are asked to identify a solid, liquid, and a gas. They are also asked to write down two things that are generally true for each of these three states of matter.

Students select the most appropriate method that could be used to separate five different mixtures.

Students outline a test they could do to show if a substance is a metal or not.

Task: Identify which actions would make it easier to attract a paper clip. Assessment focus: magnetism.

This practical task requires students to first plan how they could find out which liquid flows the best. Then they carry out their plan, record their results, and write a conclusion.

Students state whether each of nine common objects are either soft or do not bend easily.

For this practical task students complete a table of observations on nine common materials. Students then use their results to group the materials according to similar properties.

Students use information on the properties of five different drinks in order to place them correctly into a key.

This practical task has two parts. The first part of this practical requires students to observe the effects of different indicators on different substances. Students use these results to identify if some other substances are acid, alkali, or neutral.

Task: Use a key to identify six different metals from the descriptions provided. Assessment focus: using a key to identify metals.

Task: Predict, Observe, Explain, (POE) activity observing what happens to air in a balloon when it is heated. Assessment focus: behaviour of gases when heated and cooled.

For this practical students use provided definitions to classify 12 objects as either transparent, translucent, or opaque.

Students outline four ways of improving a given plan for an investigation to make it a fair test.

Students answer five questions about 'fair testing' for an outlined investigation.

Students consider the potential for chemical change when a range of everyday substances are mixed. They use logical reasoning to work out the consequences of four pairs of reactions.

Students are asked to give a useful property for each of four materials used in different situations.

Task: Process and interpret data in a table to identify the best paper to use for a game. Evaluate the reliability of the collected data. Assessment focus: using evidence to answer a question.

Students are given a mind map showing some properties of carbon dioxide. Students identify each of these as either a physical or chemical property.