Halogens Worksheet
Halogens Worksheet
Halogens Worksheet
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
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
Task
1. On your desk, arrange the fact cards in order of proton number, starting with the lowest at
the top.
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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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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.
Chlorine Iodine
35.5 127
Cl I
17 53
Green gas Black shiny solid Purple gas
With heated iron wool: starts to glow With heated iron wool: slowly changes
brightly colour
Bromine Fluorine
60 19
Br F
35 9
Brown liquid Brown gas Pale yellow gas
With heated iron wool: glows a dull red With heated iron wool: immediately
colour bursts into flames