At the end of this activity, students should be able to describe what oxidationûreduction reactions involve, calculate oxidation states, recognize redox equations, give the systematic names of inorganic compounds and polyatomic ions, specifying their oxidation states, discuss the oxidativeûreductive properties of the sûblock metals, discuss the oxidativeûreductive properties of the elements of Group 17 and describe the oxidation states of the pûblock elements in their commonest chemical compounds.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.