Our project

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Our project

• Lesson 2
• What did we throw away?

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Starter

• Who can remember whats going on in the next
  slide?

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Get your homework out

• Complete your sheet to work out what rubbish
  weve thrown away, then do the bar chart.
• Make sure you complete the questions.

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What can we do to help?

• How can we reduce the amount of rubbish thrown
  away?
• Prizes for the most imaginative!
• You could even have them filmed

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What is a plastic?

• Another name for plastic is polymer.
• If we could zoom in on a polymer we would see
  that its made of a long chain of different
  particles called monomers.
• Watch the video discuss
• What did the girls use as a monomer?
• What did they do to the monomers to make a
  polymer? What did they say its called?
• Do you think its easy to reverse the reaction?

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Making polymers

• Watch Ms G do the demo.
• How do we explain what is happening in the
  experiment?
• When the two ingredients are added in the correct
  order, they react to form a polymer

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Making models of polymers

• To make a model of the nylon polymer from the
  demo, one person should add paperclips of
  alternating colour, whilst the other person
  extends the chain away from the mixture.
• What do the different colour paperclips
  represent?

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Time to be famous

• Make a 2-3 minute film teaching someone what a
  polymer is.
• Use the paper clips as props
• Use the whiteboards and pens for captions
• Speak clearly!