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Halogens activity sheet

Teaching notes
This activity sheet can be used with the set of halogen fact cards or other suitable sources, e.g.
text books or websites such as www.webelements.com and http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table .
Students could be asked research and create their own fact cards before being given the activity
sheet.

Students will need to have been taught atomic structure (for questions 1 and 10). Question 10
provides more challenge and an opportunity to review electron configurations.

It encourages students of a wide range of abilities to spot patterns in the group and make
predictions.

Answers

1. F, Cl, Br, I

2. more

3. increases

4. As you go down the group, the boiling point increases.

5. The colour changes and gets darker: yellow, green, brown, purple.

6. Drawing to show colour change: iron turns red brown as iron iodide forms.

7. a) sodium iodide

b) estimate between -1010C (Cl melting point) and 59 0C (Br boiling point) (actual Cl
boiling point is -34 0C)

c) estimate between -101 0C (Cl melting point) and 59 0C (Br boiling point) (actual Br
melting point is -7 0C)

d) aluminium iodide

8. chlorine + calcium  calcium chloride

9. bromine + iron  iron bromide

10. As atomic number increases, reactivity decreases.

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Halogens activity sheet

Task

1. On your desk, arrange the fact cards in order of proton number, starting with the lowest at
the top.

2. Circle the correct underlined word:


As you go down group 7, the metals get more/less reactive.

3. Circle the correct underlined word:


As you go down group 7, the melting point increases/decreases.

4. Complete the sentence:


As you go down the group, the boiling point __________________________________

5. What happens to the elements’ colours as you go down group 7?

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

6. Draw a picture to show what you think would happen when the element after iodine is added
to heated iron wool.

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Halogens activity sheet

7. There is information missing from the fact cards. Predict:

a. the compound made when sodium reacts with iodine

________________________________________________________________

b. the approximate boiling point of chlorine

________________________________________________________________

c. the approximate melting point of bromine

________________________________________________________________

d. the compound made when fluorine reacts with aluminium.

________________________________________________________________

8. Write an equation for the reaction of chlorine with calcium.

9. Write an equation for the reaction of bromine with iron.

10. Use your knowledge of atomic structure to explain the pattern in reactivity that you have
discovered for this group. It may help you if you draw the electron configurations for the
first two of the elements.

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Halogens activity sheet

Chlorine Iodine
35.5 127

Cl I
17 53
Green gas Black shiny solid  Purple gas

Melting point: -101 0C Melting point: 114 0C

Boiling point: _______ 0C Boiling point: 1840C

With heated iron wool: starts to glow With heated iron wool: slowly changes
brightly colour

sodium + chlorine  sodium chloride iron + iodine  iron iodide

Bromine Fluorine
60 19

Br F
35 9
Brown liquid  Brown gas Pale yellow gas

Melting point: _______ 0C Melting point: -2200C

Boiling point: 590C Boiling point: -1880C

With heated iron wool: glows a dull red With heated iron wool: immediately
colour bursts into flames

calcium + bromine  calcium bromide iron + fluorine  iron fluoride

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