Atoms, elements and compounds

WORK AT HOME!
❑ Learning Objective(s):
Understand the difference between atoms, elements and
compounds

t e r : You have 5 minutes!

S tar
Where are all the elements listed in chemistry?

Challenge: What is more common name for H2O

Name one separation technique:

Keywords: atoms, elements, compounds, periodic table

 There are 118 elements listed
On the Periodic Table

How is possible to have so many different

materials from a limited number of elements?
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A compound is the substance produced when two or more
elements combine in a chemical reaction.

Two elements, hydrogen (H)

and oxygen (O), combine to
make the compound, water.

Challenge: Which two elements

combine to make the
compound carbon dioxide?

A compound is always made up of two or more

different types of atom.
Element Substance made up of
only one type of atom.

Substance made up of two

Compound or more different elements
that are chemically joined
together.

Atom The smallest particle that

can exist on its own.
Sort out the diagrams with particle
representation to match
 A compound can have very different properties to the
elements from which it is made.

elements compound
carbon oxygen carbon dioxide

combines to make
with

A black solid A colourless gas A colourless gas

which can be which is essential which is used
used as a fuel. for life. to put out fires.
 What are the elements which make up water?
In what ways are the elements different to their compound?

elements compound
hydrogen oxygen water

combines to make
with

A colourless gas A liquid which is

A colourless
which is essential essential to our
gas which is
for life. lives and has many
used in hot air
different uses.
balloons.
 In a chemical reaction new substances are formed.
Elements combine with each other to make new substances
called compounds.

+
hydrogen oxygen water
The substances which combine in a reaction are the reactants.
The new substances produced in a reaction are the products.
The products have different properties to the reactants from
which they are formed.
Compounds can also combine with elements or other
compounds to make new compounds.
When atoms combine in a chemical reaction to form a
compound, the atoms do not just mix together, they
become joined to one another.
oxyge wat
hydrogen + n er
H H
+ O O
H H

In a chemical reaction, the atoms in the reactants

become joined in different ways and this is how
new substances are formed.
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 6 mark question
Describe - you need to give an account but no reason
Explain - you must give reasons or explanations
Devise - you must plan or invent a procedure using your scientific
knowledge and understanding
Evaluate - you must review information, including identifying
strengths and weaknesses, and make a supported conclusion

The student has a mixture of 2 elements (one is metal

and the other non-metal) after heating it up there are
several changes in appearance.
Evaluate how the student knows that he had made a new
compound?
 Plenary
Choose 2 to answer
1.What is an atom
2.What is a common name for the mixture of
gases(O2, N2, CO2,trace gases)?
3. What is a compound?
4. Can compounds be easily separated?
5. Does the compound (product) have the same
properties of the reactants?