STARTER Mind Map!

Think of as many uses / facts as you can about copper.

What do you know already?

Title:

LO:

Copper

Find out the properties of copper and how it is extracted from its ore.

Can

Copper

Can

Copper

Malleable

Conducts _______well

Conducts ___well

Decorative

Because copper is more/less (?) reactive than carbon we can reduce it with carbon.

Copper ore is: CuCO3 – copper carbonate, what will the products of the reaction

be?

This thermally decomposes copper carbonate (malachite) to make _______

copper carbonate ______ + ________

Copper oxideCarbon dioxide

Smelting

This is where we heat our copper ore (malachite) very strongly in air.

We can then react copper oxide with sulphuric acid to make copper

sulphate solution and then extract the copper by using electrolysis. This

produces purer copper.Task:

Use electrolysis to extract and collect copper from copper

sulphate

When we’re doing experiments we need:

Goggles on Hair tied back

WORKING SENSIBLY

Standing up

Bags under desks

Alloys Bronze and brass.

Bronze = copper + tin

Brass = copper + zinc

Plenary:

Think of 2/3 questions from the chemistry/biology GCSE to test the

class on!

DIY Quiz…