Predicting Products of Chemical Reactions and Reaction Types Mystery Activity

This fun and engaging chemistry mystery on the topic of identifying the type of chemical reaction and predicting products of chemical reactions. Students work as a whole class to uncover the culprit of the missing trophy from the school's display case.

Students can be assigned student suspects. Answering the questions uncovers clues which help students to narrow down the list of suspects to a single culprit!

FEATURES

• Whole class activity or individual activity based on how you decide to print/distribute suspect cards.
• Practice ionic and covalent naming in a fun and engaging way
• Trick your students into practicing a boring skill, with a fun element

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

• Teacher set up guide
• 20 questions, predicting products of chemical reactions
• Sorting those 20 reactions into reaction type: Synthesis, Decomposition, Single Replacement, Double Replacement
• 4 pages of student suspect cards, totaling 36 student suspects
• Answer key

DON'T HAVE 36 STUDENTS?

There are directions inside the activity for how to use this activity with smaller classes, or even a single student!

NOT SURE WHERE THIS FITS IN YOUR SCHOOL YEAR?

Check out my free chemistry curriculum outline for my suggestions!

This product by Kelsey Reavy is copyrighted for single classroom only. This product may not be resold and can be copied for personal use within a classroom only. If you have questions, please email kelsey@kelseyreavy.com © Kelsey Reavy