Properties

Discuss with your partner

1. What are the similarities
between the pictures?
2. What are the differences?
3. What type of material is
being shown in all the
picture?
 Properties of Metals TALK
All 4 of these pictures show metals. Can you name any?
Match each metal up with the correct property below and discuss why
this property makes the metal useful.
• Has a low melting point.
• A good conductor of electricity.
• Very unreactive.
• It is very strong.
Extension: Define the word “properties”.
Gold Mercury Copper Iron
 Properties
What are the properties of the Transparent
window?
Solid

Our Class Definition for Easily

smashed
Properties:
High boiling and melting point

Key Point:
A property of a substance is
something that can be observed.
 Properties of Metals
Create a class mind map on the board with the words we would use to
describe metals.
 How did we do?

Conduct
Hard electrici
ty

Dense High melting

and boiling
points

Conduct heat
Sonorous
Shiny (when Mall
eable
freshly cut)
 Linking it together
Complete the worksheet using your new knowledge of metals and their
properties.

Hard
Shiny (when
freshly cut) Conduct
electrici
ty
Dense
Malleable
High melting
and boiling
Conduct heat Sonorous points

Extension: What examples can you see around the room?

 Shiny (when
freshly cut)

High melting and

boiling points

Malleable

Sonorous

Dense

Hard

Conduct heat

Conduct
electricity
 Research Task
Create a sheet with some fun facts about metals! Can you include the
following facts? What else can you find?
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is used
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w m uch m e t found on the out? W y made of
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Stadiu oes it hold? 
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m ost expensive metal in What the rare
st metal
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h ich etal in is its half life?
ow long
W em How much was one E xt :
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life?
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 Worksheets

Options

8Ga-1

8Ga-3

8Ga-5
 Worksheets

8Ga-1
 Answers

8Ga-5