Year 8 Science · Unit 2 · Lesson 13

Metals, Non-metals and Metalloids

Foundation Worksheet

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Learning Goals

Identify whether an element is a metal, non-metal or metalloid using its position on the periodic table.
Describe the key physical properties that distinguish metals from non-metals.
Recognise metalloids as elements that share properties of both metals and non-metals.

Warm Up

Sort it!

Write each element from the pool into the correct category box below. Use what you know from the lesson about where each element sits on the periodic table.

iron oxygen silicon copper sulfur aluminium carbon (graphite) helium boron calcium

Metal

Non-metal

Metalloid

Your Turn

Odd one out

Circle the item that does not belong in each group. Then write the odd one out and explain why it does not fit in the answer column.

#	Group	Your answer (odd one + reason)
1	Shiny Malleable Ductile Brittle
2	Oxygen Nitrogen Chlorine Copper
3	Silicon Germanium Arsenic Sodium

Show What You Know

1. State two properties that metals have but non-metals do not. For each property, give one example of a metal that shows it.

Recall 2 marks

2. What is a metalloid? Give two examples and explain why they are not classified as either a metal or a non-metal.

Recall 2 marks

Wrap Up

In one sentence, what was the main idea of this lesson?