Extra Credit Opportunity

Periodic Table of Awesome

  The periodic table has several levels of organization which clarify characteristics of elements.
  Your extra credit task is to create a table of one of your favorite things. (20 points Extra Credit)

Requirements:

       At least 16 items

       3 levels of organization

Here is an example with music groups:

Northwest Indie Rock	New York Indie Rock	Hip Hop	Old School
Deerhoof	Grizzly Bear	Atmosphere	Jimi Hendrix
Acetone	St. Vincent	Jurassic 5	The Doors
Elliott Smith	Atlas Sound	Ice Cube	Muddy Waters
Nirvana	Sonic Youth	Snoop Dogg	Howlin' Wolf
Pavement		Wu Tang Clan	Robert Johnson
Pixies

Element Project Information

Element Project

Due next block day (2/29 or 3/1) at the beginning of class.

40 points Formative Assessment

For the next two days you will be researching an element.  The information that will be required for the project is found below.  You can choose how you want to display the information from the format options below. 

Required Information:

  ü  Element Name, Symbol, Atomic Number and Average Atomic Mass

  ü  Common isotopes

  ü  The number of protons, neutrons and electrons in each of the common isotopes

  ü  Which Group is your element in and what properties does your element have that are characteristic of that group? (At least 3)

  ü  Where in nature is your element found and in what form?

  ü  What are some common uses for your element?

Format Choices:

  Ø  Poem or song

  Ø  Cereal Box

  Ø  Diary/journal entry from a day in the life of your element.

  Ø  Recipe

  Ø  Super Hero

  Ø  T-Shirt

Grading:

  v  Each of the categories in the required information section are worth 6 points each.  The information must be present, accurate and clearly labeled.

  v  The other 4 points is for use of class time and quality of your project.  All text needs to be handwritten.  All sketches need to be color unless black and white is for effect.  You will have two days in the computer lab to research, if you choose not to work you can lose points in this category.

Chapter 15 Guided Reading Questions from Thursday 2/23

Guided Reading Chapter 15 Section 1 (starts on p334)

   1.    What is the difference between a physical and a chemical change of matter?

   2.    Currently, there are _________ elements that have been identified. _______ of these are naturally occurring.

   3.    How is the Periodic Table arranged?

   4.    Rows are known as _________ and columns are called ________.

   5.    What are the three main categories of matter elements are classified as on the Periodic Table?

   6.    What is the atomic mass of an element?

   7.    For the element Carbon list the Average Atomic Mass, Stable Mass Numbers, Element Symbol and Atomic Number.

   8.    What is the name of the group of elements that include Lithium, Sodium and Potassium?

   9.    Why are the noble gases called “inert”?

   10.  Periods represent the number of __________ ____________ needed to hold the appropriate number of electrons.

Guided Reading Chapter 15 Section 2

   11.  Most elements are _________ at room temperature.

   12.  What does it mean for an element to be in a solid state?

   13.  _______________ is the repeating pattern of chemical and physical properties of elements.

   14.  What type of element makes a good electrical and thermal conductor?

   15.  _____________ make good insulators.

   16.  What element is important to life and what two forms of this element occur in nature?

   17.  _____________ is the second most abundant element on Earth.

   18.  _____________ percent of the Earth’s crust is made up of Oxygen.

   19.  Name two important uses of Nitrogen.

   20.  Of what important process is Phosphorus a key ingredient?

Periodic Table Questions from Wednesday

Physical Science                                                                                                Name________________________________per____

Periodic Table Questions

     1)      Which elements are in group 1?

     2)      Which elements are in group 8?

     3)      Name 3 transition metals:

     4)      To which group does chlorine belong? What other elements are in that group?

     5)      Which elements are in the second period?

     6)      Each row (period) of the periodic table contains only a certain number of elements.  What does this have to do with the structure of the atom?

7    7)      Which group of the periodic table contains the element argon?

8    8)      Which group contains the element carbon?

9    9)      What is your favorite element?  Why?

Chapter 14 Test Scores

...are posted in infinite campus.
53 - 59 = A
47 - 52 = B
41 - 48 = C
40 - 36 = D
35 - 0 = F

Average Scores
4th Period: 45
6th Period: 42
7th Period: 50

Have an awesome 4-day weekend!!  

TEST!!

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