Atoms!
Atoms!
KEYWORDS: ATOM, PROTON, NEUTRON, ELECTRON
Discuss with your classmate and write it up in your book!
Watch this video on the structure of the atom..
Discuss with your classmate and write it up in your book!
KEYWORDS: atomic number, atomic mass (also called mass number)
Let's warm up our brains with some more atom revision
before discussing elements..
QUICK QUESTION!
Electrons travels so fast that if they were free they would go around the earth in 18 seconds.
How long would it take for them
to go from Sydney to New York?
Sydney to Perth??
Can you do the maths?!
So how do we move from 'atom' to 'element'?
What is the relationship?
TAKE NOTES INTO YOUR WORKBOOK FROM THE CONTENT BELOW..
WHY ARE ELEMENTS IN CERTAIN POSITIONS?
DISCUSS WITH YOUR NEIGHBOUR - DESCRIBE THE PATTERN!
Let's watch this video below, it is a great little summary of atoms.
It also introduces our next topic -
'electron configuration' (how atoms are arranged).
This worksheet has foreign nomenclature in it, need to change. And set as task...
FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE MORE!
Watch the video below and take time to consider carbon.
How to grow a man-made diamond..
Discuss with your classmate and write your answer using clear and succinct expression in your workbook.