Date: 2nd 6th March 2009 Subject: Chemistry Class: Grade 9 No.

. of students: 25 Duration of lesson: 1hour 10 minutes Unit topic: Periodic Table Lesson Topic: Properties of the Periodic Table Strategies: Lecture-Discussion, Direct Instruction, and Co-operative Learning. General Objectives: Students should gain knowledge about the properties of the periodic table. Specific Objectives: From the notes given, students should be able to: 1. Correlate between electronic configuration and group/period number 2. Name and give the properties of groups I, II, VII, AND VIII/O elements. 3. Explain valence shell and valence electrons.

Previous Knowledge: Students are familiar with the elements of the Periodic Table Summary of Content: The properties of the elements exhibit trends. These trends can be predicted using the periodic table and can be explained and understood by analyzing the electron configurations of the elements. Elements tend to gain or lose valence electrons to achieve stable octet formation. Stable octets are seen in the inert gases, or noble gases, of Group VIII of the periodic table. In addition to this activity, there are two other important trends. First, electrons are added one at a time moving from left to right across a period. As this happens, the electrons of the outermost shell experience increasingly strong nuclear attraction, so the electrons become closer to the nucleus and more tightly bound to it. Second, moving down a column in the periodic table, the outermost electrons become

less tightly bound to the nucleus. This happens because the number of filled principal energy levels increases downward within each group. Moving from left to right across a period, electrons are added one at a time to the outer energy shell. Moving down a group in the periodic table, the number of electrons and filled electron shells increases, but the number of valence electrons remains the same. The outermost electrons in a group are exposed to the same effective nuclear charge, but electrons are found farther from the nucleus as the number of filled energy shells increase Procedure: Step 1. (10 minutes) Teacher introduces the lesson and will lead a question session to ascertain students previous knowledge about the properties of the periodic table elements. Step 2. (50 minutes) Teacher will develop the lesson. Step 3. (10 minutes) Teacher will give students home work to find specific elements not in the first twenty elements.

Evaluation: The class went well; students were able to understand the different features of the periodic table.