Friday, September 18, 2009

Periodic Table and Periodic Trends

Friday:
Test over Chapter 4
Periodic Table Building, graph the atomic radius vs. the atomic weight.

Tuesday:
Practice reading periodic table: pg. 162 (Solids, Liquids, Gases, stability)
Periodic Table Basics: Label Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids, Alkali Metals, Alkali Earth Metals, Transition Metals, Chalcogens, Halogens, Noble Gases.
Vocabulary: Valence Electrons, Reactive, Octet Rule, Cation, Anion
Around the room: Metal, Nonmetal, Metalloid Notes and Around the room classifying.

Thursday:
Electron Configuration Using the Periodic Table, Labeling the periodic table for electron configurations.
Electron Configurations Gizmo where students write electron configurations of atoms.
CALM Problems

Monday:
Substitute Reading Assignment.

Wednesday
Goal: students describe periodic trends and reasons for those trends.
Vocabulary: Hund's rule, Aufbau Principle, Atomic Radius, Ionization Energy, Ionic Size, Electronegativity.
Finish Electron Configurations sheet.
CALM Problems

Friday:
1.) Pyramid review of some vocabulary.
2.) Periodic Trends: Electronegativity, Ionization Energy, Atomic Radius, Ionic Radius (Cations get smaller, Anions get larger)
Notes on trends.
3.) Test Concepts: Electron Configurations with rules, Parts of the Periodic Table, Periodic Trends (what they are and what there patterns are).

Tuesday:
Quiz
What is light? Formative Assessment Probe.
Vocabulary: Excited vs. Ground State.
Atomic Spectrum Lab-Excited States vs. Ground State
Flame Testing?

Thursday
Start Ionic Compounds, Metallic Compounds, and Covalent Compounds big ideas.
around the room.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Atomic Theory, Atomic Symbols, Ave. Atomic Mass

Tuesday: 9/8
GOAL: Students explore the differences between atoms, ions, and isotopes.
Chapter 3 Test and Exploring Chapter 4 Gizmo

Thursday: 9/10
GOAL: Students explain the development of atomic theory, and decipher elemental symbols.
Engage: Mystery Box.
1.) Making a book ppt. for Atomic Theory: Greeks, Dalton, Rutherford, Thomson, Bohr. (Person, time, experiment, and conclusion, and picture of atom, graphic organizer)
2.) Reading Atomic Symbols Practice, around the room using grid to determine the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons.

Monday: 9/14
Goal: Students determine the average atomic mass based on relative abundances.
1.) Atomic Symbols Warm-Up
2.) Relative Abundance Examples
3.) Topic 4: CALM problems

Wednesday: 9/16
Quiz: Atomic Symbols, Atomic Mass, Atomic Theory
Periodic Table Construction explore activity.

Thursday: Vocabulary: Periodic Trends, Electronegativitiy, Octet Rule, Orbitals, Period, Row, Group, Family
Periodic Trend Graphic Activity.