Elements

Aims & Learning Outcomes

To resource the 11-14 science area ‘Materials and their Properties’ as an experimental and investigative discipline.
To provide investigations set in contexts that appeal to the target audience.
To illustrate the scientific ideas involved with the help of computer graphics, animation, real life applications and memorable demonstrations.

• To know that elements consist of atoms and that all the atoms of the same element contain the same number of protons.
• To represent elements as symbols.
• To understand how some elements combine through chemical reactions to form compounds, e.g. water, carbon dioxide, magnesium, sodium chloride.