Hydrocarbons
This list covers five or six lesson which are an introduction Hydrocarbons suitable for GCSE and BTEC Level 2 Science. Lesson 1 Crude Oil - What is it? Lesson 2 Hydrocarbons - What are they? Lesson 3 Energy from Hydrocarbons Lesson 4: Environmental Consequences Lesson 5: Optional Practicals Lesson 6: Making Useful Materials from Hydrocarbons.
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Teacher guidance
Governments Get Hot about Global Warming
This worksheet critically assesses some of the evidence that might connect our increased burning of fossil fuels to rising temperatures. The aim of the exercise is to help students realise that there may be other factors contributing to global warming, apart from rising carbon dioxide levels. This is an ideal resource to address How Science Works.
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Oil Refining
This can be used as part of Lesson 1 on Hydrocarbons; examining oil production, refining process and the resulting human impact on the environment. This resource may also be useful in enhancing literacy skills.
Catalytic Converter
This resource explains how a catalytic converter works. It is an ideal resource to use with an able class and is particularly suitable for the new GCSE.
Chemistry in a Cage
This resources is ideal for more able students. The worksheet discusses the role of zeolites in industry and specifically in catalysis. This would be an ideal way of introducing catalytic cracking and the role of zeolites in this important process.
Experiment
Making Molecules
This a paper based hydorcarbon modelling activity that allows students to explore isomerisation alongside simple alkane structures which would form a useful part of the second lesson of the sequence.
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Hydrocarbons -BBC Bitesize
This resource can be used as an introduction or a plenary to Hydrocarbons. There are good questions in the resource that will help assess the learning of students.
