Educational Technology IV

Stoichiometry:
Limiting reactant and the reactant in excess
Problem- Solution

Prepared By: Karla Fakhry

Samia Al Joubaily
 Problem

• As teachers we observed in our classes (grade 10) that students demonstrate

poor achievement in stoichiometry concept due to the lack of understanding of
stoichiometry in several ways:

• poor grades on tests and quizzes

• missing or incomplete assignments

• lack of class participation

Why?????
 Passive learning

Passive learning is a method

of learning or instruction where students
receive information from the instructor,
and "where the learner receives no
feedback from the instructor".
Passive learning
 Solution
 Researchers assert that the use of sound instructional strategies such as
the use of analogies and metaphors, predict-observe-explain sequences,
talk moves, and thought experiments, will increase student understanding
of the following stoichiometry concepts/ tasks: limiting reactants,
subscript/coefficient meaning, applying a balanced chemical equation to the
solving of a molar ratio problem, and mole/ratio proportional reasoning.
Kimberlin, S., & Yezierski, E. (2016). Effectiveness of inquiry-based lessons using particulate level models to develop high school students’ understanding of
conceptual stoichiometry. Journal of Chemical Education, 93(6), 1002-1009.
Active learning

Vygotsky
 Objectives
• Students should be able to:

-Define limiting reactant

-Describe how to determine which

component in a reaction is the limiting
reactant.
 Limiting reactant and reactant in
excess
• In a chemical reaction an insufficient quantity of any of the reactants
will limit the amount of product that forms.

• A limiting reagent determines the amount of product that can be

formed by a reaction.

• The reactant that is not completely used up is called the excess

reagent
 Grilled cheese Sandwiches!

• A typical grilled cheese sandwich needs 2 piece of bread and 1 piece of

cheese.

• If you have 10 slices of bread and 3 piece of cheese, you would only be able
to make 3 sandwiches even though you have enough bread to make 5.

• In this example, the cheese is the limiting reagent and the bread is the excess
reagent.
Try it using CK-12
Application:
Determining the limiting reactant in a
reaction
• Copper reacts with sulfur to from copper (I) sulfide according to the
following balanced equation: 2Cu + S Cu2S
1- What is the limiting reactant when 4 moles of Cu reacts with 5 moles
of sulfur?
2- Determine the limiting reactant and the reactant in excess.

Answer:
2 moles of copper reacts with 1 mole of sulfur
If we have 4 moles of copper we need 2 moles of sulfur, but we have 5 moles of
copper copper is the limiting reactant and sulfur is the reactant in excess.