Chemistry of the Atmosphere Lessons PowerPoint | AQA GCSE Chemistry C9 8462, 7 Lessons
AQA GCSE Chemistry C9 Chemistry of the Atmosphere: 7 lessons ready to teach, with a topic test
You get every lesson for AQA GCSE Chemistry C9 Chemistry of the Atmosphere, planned and ready to teach. There are 7 teaching lessons. Each one is editable PowerPoint and matched to the AQA 8462 specification.
What your classes work through
- The gases in today's atmosphere. Pupils use a 4:1 nitrogen to oxygen ratio to calculate the total volume of an air sample to 3 significant figures.
- The Earth's early atmosphere. Pupils predict the main gas in the atmosphere of a young volcanic planet with no life and justify whether it will contain much oxygen.
- How oxygen rose and carbon dioxide fell. Pupils read carbon dioxide percentages from a graph at 1 and 3 billion years and calculate the mean rate of decrease.
- Greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect. Pupils explain how greenhouse gases keep the Earth's surface warm, using the terms short wavelength and long wavelength radiation.
- Climate change and the carbon footprint. Pupils describe what the carbon footprint of a product means and explain why a food company may struggle to cut it to zero.
- Pollutants from burning fuels. Pupils balance the equation for the complete combustion of propane, C3H8, in a plentiful supply of oxygen.
- The problems pollutants cause. Pupils calculate the percentage increase in sulfur dioxide concentration beside a busy road before and during rush hour.
Who it is for
Use it to teach AQA GCSE Chemistry Chemistry of the Atmosphere lessons in Year 10 and Year 11, tracing the early atmosphere, the rise of oxygen, greenhouse gases, climate change, carbon footprints and air pollutants. It also gives GCSE Chemistry revision practice with the calculations and graph reading this topic brings.
How each lesson runs
Each C9 Chemistry of the Atmosphere lesson starts with a Do Now that recalls earlier learning, with the answers on the next slide. It then moves through I Do, We Do and You Do, with a model answer after each task. It finishes with the AQA-style question listed above, its mark scheme and an exit ticket. A specification slide names the AQA points the lesson covers, so you can check it against your scheme of work.
Topic test
The C9 Chemistry of the Atmosphere topic test covers the whole unit with AQA-style questions and comes with its mark scheme, both in Word and PDF.
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