Lesson Plan 2

Date : 4 February 2009

Time : 9.30 am -10.10 am (40 minutes)
Venue : Chemistry laboratory
Class : Form 4
Number of students: 32
Ability : Medium
Topic : Chapter 3 Chemical Formulae and Equations
Sub topic : The Mole and the Number of Particles.
Main concept : 1. One mole is defined as the amount of substance that contains as
many particles as the number of atoms in exactly 12 g of carbon-
12, which is 6.02 x 1023 particles.
2. The Avogadro constant, NA is defined as the number of particles
in one mole of a substance. NA = 6.02 x 1023 mol-1

Key words: Mole

Aims/ Goals: Students can analyse the relationship between the numbers of moles with
the number of particles.
Learning outcome:
At the end of this lesson, student should be able to
1. define a mole as the amount of matter that contains as many particles as the
number of atoms in 12 g of 12C.
2. state the meaning of Avogadro constant,
3. relate the number of particles in one mole of a substance with the Avogadro
constant,
4. solve numerical problems to convert the number of moles to the number of
particles of a given substance and vice versa.

Pre-requisite knowledge/ prior knowledge:

The meaning of ‘dozen’, multiplication, division, index numbers

Scientific Skills: Observing, predicting

Thinking skills: Analysing, making analogies

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 Scientific Attitude and Noble value:
Appreciate the contributions of scientists for their research on the concept of mole.

Teaching Method: Lecture, expository method, discussion, laboratory activity.

Teaching Aids : Power point slide show, paper clips and worksheet.

PHASE TIME TEACHER AND NOTES TEACHING’S

ALLOCATION
(MIN) STUDENTS AIDS
ACTIVITY
Set 10 1.1 Teacher introduces a
Induction
new subtopic ‘The
Power point
Mole and the Number slide shows.
of Particles’ to
students.
1.2 Teacher asks the 1.2 Students should
students, ‘How many know that 1
pencils are there in 1 dozen=12.
dozen of pencils?’, 2 dozen=2 X 12=24
‘How about 2 dozen?’

1.3 Teacher asks students

to get into groups of 4,
and then the Group
leaders from each
group come forward to
get White, Red, Blue
and Yellow paper clips
(30 pieces each) from
teacher.

1.4 Teacher asks the

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 students to discuss and
complete the table 3.2
in page 18 of practical Practical book.
book. Teacher moves
around to observe the
discussion of each
group. Teacher can
gives some helps if
students face the
problems in
calculation.

Learning 10 2.1 Teacher introduces the 2.1 In chemistry, we

Development
concept of ‘mole’ to use the unit ‘mole’
the students. to represent the Power point
slide shows.
amount of substance
containing 6.02 x
1023 particles.

2.2 Teacher gives the 2.2 Students can answer

example of 1 mole of
copper =6.02 x 1023
copper atoms. Then,
teacher asks the
students ‘How about 2
mole of copper?’
the question based
on the analogy used
Power point
in the introduction slide shows.
and by completing
the table 3.2.
2 mole of copper = 2 x
6.02 x 1023 copper
atoms

Practical book
2.3 Teacher asks the

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 students continue to
discuss and complete
the table 3.3 in page Power point
slide shows.
18 of practical book.

2.4 One ‘mole’ is

2.4 Teacher gives the
defined as the
definition of ‘mole’ to amount of
substance that
the students.
contains as many
particles as the
number of atoms in
exactly 12 g of
carbon-12, which
is 6.02 x 1023
particles.The
symbol of mole is
mol.
Power point
2.5 Teacher introduces the 2.5 The Avogadro
slide shows
constant, NA is
concept of Avogadro
defined as the
constant, NA to the number of particles
in one mole of a
students.
substance. NA = 6.02
x 1023 mol-1
2.6 Teacher briefly
describes the history
of the concept of
Avogadro constant,
NA.

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15 3.1 Teacher emphasizes
that One mole of Power point
substance contains slide shows
6.02 x 1023 particles
(atoms, molecules or
ions).
3.2 Teacher asks students 3.2 Refer to practical
to continue discuss the book page 19 and
Activity 3.2 to 20. Students will Practical book
investigate the ‘moles initially use the
of molecules’. paper clips as the
aids, but after the
3.3 Teacher asks them to first two or three
prepare a complete trials they can
report on this calculate it without
activity for each using paper clips.
group and pass up on
the next lesson.
3.4 Teacher relates the
relationship between Power point
the number of moles slide shows
and the number of
particles by showing
the diagram.
3.5 Teacher gives an 3.5 Answer of “Try this
example of by out (1)!”:
multiplying the 1) 4.816 x 1023
number of moles with molecules
NA can get the number 2) 7.224 x 1023
of particles. Then, molecules
teacher gives some

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 exercises to test their
understanding.

3.6 Teacher asks two White board.

students to show the
ways of getting the
answers on the white
board.

3.7 Teacher gives an 3.7 Answer of “Try this

example of by out (2)!”:
dividing the number of 1) 0.01mole
particles with NA can 2) 1.25 moles
get the number of
moles. Then, teacher
gives some exercises
to test their
understanding.
3.8 Teacher asks two
students to show the White board.
ways of getting the
answers on the white
board.

PHASE TIME TEACHER AND NOTES TEACHING’S

(MIN) STUDENTS AIDS
ACTIVITY
Conclusion 5 4.1 Teacher reviews the 4.1 The two important Power point
concepts are: slide show
lesson by showing two
1) One mole is defined
important concepts in as the amount of
substance that
this lesson
contains as many
particles as the

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 number of atoms in
exactly 12 g of
carbon-12, which is
6.02 x 1023 particles.
2) The Avogadro
constant, NA is
defined as the
number of particles
in one mole of a
substance. NA = 6.02
x 1023 mol-1
4.2 Teacher distributes
Worksheet 2 to the Worksheet 2
students as the
homework and remind
them pass up with the
laboratory report on
next class.

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