Mole Day Planning Pack

Read out the statements below. Students decide whether the statement is true
or false. They indicate their answer in the following way:

False

Dont know
True

Sit down
Stand up
Stand up with arms in the air

Or they can always use traffic light cards!

After each question, ask a selection of students to explain the reasons for their answer.
After hearing several reasons, give the students the opportunity to change their
answer.
1. The mole is a unit.

2. The mole is a mass.

3. One mole of water (H2O) and one mole of glucose (C6H12O6) have the same
mass.
4. One mole of H2 contains the same number of molecules as one mole of CO2.
5. One mole of H2 contains the same number of atoms as one mole of CO2.
6. There are more atoms in 12 g of carbon than in 12 g of copper.
7. A mole is a molecule.
8. The mole is a number.
9. One mole of a substance contains Avogadros number of elementary entities.
10. One mole of a substance contains 6.02 x 1023 elementary entities.
11. The amount of substance is measured in kilograms.
12. The amount of substance is a volume.
13. I understand what a mole is.

Answers
1) T 2) F 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) T 7) F 8) F 9) T 10) T 11) F 12) F

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Mole Traffic Lights

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Mole Day Planning Pack

The words on the cards below are important in understanding the definition of the
mole. Cut out the cards.

Game 1
Hold a card above the head of a volunteer. The volunteer can ask for clues from
anyone in the class, and must keep asking until they guess the correct word above their
head.

Game 2
A variation is to ask the student with the card above their head to ask questions until
they are able to guess the word correctly.

Game 3
Ask a student to select a card. Only they read the card and then describe the idea to
the rest of the class, who guess the word on the card. The student who answers
correctly rolls a die and counts round the room from themselves to select the next
lucky student to describe the word on the card.

Kilogram

Amount
of
substance

Atom

Mole

Molecule

Carbon-12

Element

Relative
Atomic
Mass

6.02 x 1023

Avogadros
constant

Electron

Base unit

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The Mole: Headguess

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Mole Day Planning Pack

Option 1
Give one card to each student. They have to find their match, and can help each other.
Option 2
Give each team a set of cards. First team to match the definitions up correctly wins.

Relative
Atomic
Mass

Amount
of
substance

Isotope

Molar
mass

Avogadros
number

Atomic
number

Mole

Relative
formula
mass

The number of protons

you find in the nucleus
of an atom.

The constant for the

number of entities in
one mole: 6.02 x 1023

Mass
number

Atomic
mass
unit

The total number of

protons and neutrons
you find in the nucleus
of an atom.

Atoms which have the

same atomic number
but different mass
number.

Base quantity for which

the mole is the unit. It
is the number of
elementary entities
divided by the
Avogadro constant.

The ratio of the

average mass of the
atom to the unified
atomic mass unit

Ratio of the mass of a

molecule to the unified
atomic mass unit.
Sometimes called the
molecular weight or
relative molar mass.

One twelfth of the

mass of carbon-12.

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SI base unit for amount

of substance: that
which contains the
same number of
elementary entities as
there are atoms in
0.012 kg of carbon-12.

1.66 x 10-27

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Definitions Card Match