Lesson 3

Chemical & physical changes

You need to be able to identify physical and chemical changes.


Objectives:

  1. Know the difference between a physical and a chemical change.

  2. Be able to draw the arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases.

  3. Know the names of the changes of state.

PART A

Copy this paragraph:

Chemical reactions are changes where a new substance has formed; they are permanent changes because it cannot change back. If no new substance has been formed but there has still been a change (e.g. shape, state) then we have a physical change; these changes are reversible.

PART B

Watch this video lesson.

7 8 physical chemical changes

PART C

Draw and label the following diagram.

changing state.png

PART D

Watch this video of a chemical change.

PART E

Try this quiz:

Well done if you got 5/5 on the quiz, if you didn't go back through the lesson again.

End of lesson