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Structure and properties of substances and particles
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
15 of 46 building blocks practised
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Grade 5/6
Grade 7/8
- Laboratory safety (gap, no app yet)
- Properties of substances (an app practises it)
- States of matter and changes of state (an app practises it)
- Melting and boiling points (an app practises it)
- Predicting the state of matter (gap, no app yet)
- Identifying and using substances (an app practises it)
- Electrical conductivity (gap, no app yet)
- Solubility in water (gap, no app yet)
- Tests for gases (gap, no app yet)
- Pure substances and mixtures (an app practises it)
- Separating mixtures (gap, no app yet)
- Elements and compounds (gap, no app yet)
- Particle model (an app practises it)
- States of matter in the particle model (an app practises it)
- Conceptual and physical models (gap, no app yet)
- Dalton's atomic model (gap, no app yet)
- Element symbols (an app practises it)
- Chemical formulas of compounds (an app practises it)
- Subatomic particles (an app practises it)
- Atoms, ions and molecules (gap, no app yet)
- Reading the periodic table (an app practises it)
- Metals and non-metals (an app practises it)
- Ionic bonding (gap, no app yet)
- Ionic lattices (gap, no app yet)
- Metallic bonding (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
- pH value and indicators (gap, no app yet)
- Ions in acidic and alkaline solutions (gap, no app yet)
- Atomic number and mass number (an app practises it)
- Shell model (an app practises it)
- Energy level model (gap, no app yet)
- Main groups (an app practises it)
- Predicting reactivity from valence electrons (gap, no app yet)
- Periodic table and atomic structure (gap, no app yet)
- Periodic trends (gap, no app yet)
- Formation of ions (gap, no app yet)
- Covalent bonding (gap, no app yet)
- Lewis structures (gap, no app yet)
- Comparing types of bonding (gap, no app yet)
- Molecular geometry (gap, no app yet)
- Partial charges and dipoles (gap, no app yet)
- Intermolecular forces (gap, no app yet)
- Structure-property relationships (gap, no app yet)
- Alkanes (gap, no app yet)
- Functional groups and compound classes (gap, no app yet)
- Properties of organic compounds (gap, no app yet)
- Plastics (gap, no app yet)
Apps in this strand
Inorganic chemistry – first steps 15 of 46 building blocks · Grade 7–10Build an app for this strand
An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.