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=**CHemistry is CHool 2!!**= Introduction: Welcome to class where Chemistry iS CHool! **Physical Science** can be divided into at least two major subjects, Physics and Chemistry. When you learned to read you first had to learn the alphabet and perhaps some of the sounds each letter makes. In Chemistry we first need to acquaint ourselves with the Periodic Table, the elements present there and some of the things they make when put together. We will divide the course up into five mini units: Nomenclature, History, periodic table 1 and 2and uses. Each mini unit will have its own introduction, assignments and discussion points and assessments. First you need to become familiar with navigating with Wikispaces. Click on help above on the right and try out some features. Objectives: The students will: get to know our cohort participate daily in the discussion/assignment boards identify all major parts of Periodic table learn how the table came into being identify the abbreviations of the elements and spell their element names. This is a short course through the periodic table. Hang on, it is a-Maze-ing! The text: Physical Science XYZ Readings: Research the elements for location, atomic structure, and usage. Elemental Carbon coal, graphite, diamond, etc. as free carbon and in combination with other element- CO 2 Read more: [|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_on_earth_can_you_find_the_element_carbon#ixzz1bv9ArLAx] diamond craters from meteors. [] Calcium and other minerals [] transition metals [] noble gases [] Halogens Outline: > a. history of periodic table > b. early forms > c. numerical sequence > d. regions of the periodic table and physical properties >> Nomenclature >> Atomic Number >> Regions >> rows >> columns > e. atomic structure > f. isotopes > g. reactivity based upon location and chemical properties > h. families and groups > i. intro to chemical reactions; States of matter and nomenclature Resources needed :1. follow this link Chemical Elements Song As a group list the elements in the order of the song. Have fun. You can also listen to this tune sung in the movie //Kate and Leopold.// The first person will date and time their submission and others can add to the list until they are correctly listed in song order. Every time you end, date and time stamp it. The last date and time will tell us how fast you all completed this race. 2. Text: Physical Science xyz 3. Periodic Table 4.I'm trying to imbed a link of a google earth tour. a. Click on the following link (or cut and paste into your browser): [] b.This will prompt you to open or save the file. Click on open. c. Your computer may need to have Google Earth installed. d. The tour should start automatically. Assessments: Self-Quiz on names and their abbreviations completed by Tuesday, 10/25 Directions: 1. Write the names of the first 20 elements with their symbol. Try to time yourself. Start a discussion stating how many you got correct and your time. You may redo this exercise as many times as you want. Share the ones that are tricky or easy to confuse. 2.Extra Credit. Find the mistake in the Periodic Table. I found two. 3.I can't make the table feature on wiki spaces provide the format for atomic structure of the periodic table.
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Weekly Assignments: 1. Post to discussion board how many different sections you can find and what they might be called. There are quite a few ways to answer this so go ahead and take a stab at it. Feel free to search the internet for explanantions and descriptions of the different groups. Make sure you document your source with a web address and the date you accessed it. You also need to site the source of books or tables. 2. Week 1: Nomenclature: project: Go to projects, sign up for a team with the least members and we will accomplish an A-Maze-ing thing. We will sort the periodic Table by Name type. Group 1 try to list on a table all the elements with One letter that is the first letter of the name. Group 2 list all the elements where the letters are NOT the first one or two letters of the name. Group 3 List all elements with 2-letter names that are the first two letters of the name. This project should be complete by Tuesday. Listen to Chemical Elements Song. 3.Week 2: History: Read in text pg xx-yy. Post some of the first contributors to what became our periodic table of the Elements. Add years. Add elements. 4. Go on Google Earth Tour. Please keep a log where you go. Then write down 3 more steps that the tour should take and what we find there. Submit Your log and 3 new stops for tour to my e-mail, kw@whitmyre.com. Right now the audio is virtually non-existent. This can be fixed with a second recording. If you e-mail me I can send you the text as presented. 3. Week 3: Atomic Structure: What makes one element different from its neighbor? protons? neutrons? electrons? That is a trick question. //The Atomic Number// is the sequential number in top left corner of each box. That is the number of ___. It is also the number of __. The number of neutrons is not set. The different numbers of neutrons determines the number of isotopes that any particular element has. 6. Read TExt pg xx-yy. Name as many atomic structure models as you can find. Please site your sources. You may use the internet and your text. Which atomic structure do you like the best. &. Part of the structure is the order the electrons fill their orbitals. There are 8 maximum outer electrons on almost all elements. They assume a position equal spaced from the others. The number of electrons in the outer shell are the same as the distance from the left element on that same row. For example Hydrogen is number one and it is the first element in its row so it has one (1) electron in its outer orbital. Argon is eighth away from the left side of its row, so Ra has 8 electrons in its outer orbital. (Possible future :View video demonstration.) 7. Week 5: Read Text xx-yy. Go to your teams and enter your solution to the Lewis stucture of H (which is in column ____), and all the elements up to Kr (36).Copy this instruction, complete and send in discussion link.