Lesson Plan: Chemical Properties of Oxygen
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to describe how elements react with oxygen to form oxides and compare combustion and rusting.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- describe how oxygen combines with elements to form oxides,
- identify rusting and combustion as examples of oxidation reactions,
- describe how atmospheric oxygen causes rusting,
- describe how rusting can be prevented,
- predict and explain how a substance will burn in oxygen,
- investigate how burning changes the mass of a substance,
- compare the processes of combustion and rusting.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- matter,
- states of matter,
- elements, atoms, and molecules,
- the importance of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the preparation of oxygen,
- the properties of oxygen in the solid and liquid states.