Tuesday through Friday, 19 - 22 December, 2017

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What keeps substances together?

LEARNING TARGET: What are attractive forces?

BENCHMARKS: SC.912.P.8.6

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:

-Describe why atoms come together to form chemical bonds.

-Differentiate between hydrogen bonding and van der Walls forces.

BELL RINGER - You have two pieces of paper that you want to bind together. List all the possible ways you could do this.

VOCABULARY: energy, ground state, excited state, emission spectra, photon, Planck’s constant, quantum, quantum mechanical model, electron configuration, atomic orbital, energy levels, Aufbau Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund’ Rule

HOME LEARNING: notebook update

AGENDA

WHOLE GROUP

NOTE: Due to Holiday celebrations, some class activities may not occur.

For the bell ringer, students listed all the possible ways to bind two sheets of paper together.

We did a teacher demo for hydrogen bonds.

Students then saw the video Atomic Hook -Ups. You can watch the video by clicking the link below.

Crash Course: Atomic Hookups: Types of Bonds

Students then did the online activity determining bond types. Visit my blog page for December 19/20 (the other one!) for the link!

For an early Christmas present, I'll also include it below: :-)

Determining Bond Types

Tuesday/Wednesday, 19/20 December, 2017

Click the link below to access the virtual lab.

Determining Bond Types

Friday/Monday, 15/18 December, 2017

Click on the link below to access the activity.

It's Elementary: Building Elements

Atomic Electron Configuration

Monday through Monday, 11 through 20 December, 2017

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are electrons arranged in atoms?

LEARNING TARGET: Identify elements by their electron configuration

BENCHMARKS: SC.912.P.8.5

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:

-explain that when electrons transition to higher energy levels they absorb energy, and emit energy when they transition to lower energy levels.

-Take a quiz on electron configuration

-Data chat

BELL RINGER - short study session

VOCABULARY: energy, ground state, excited state, emission spectra, photon, Planck’s constant, quantum, quantum mechanical model, electron configuration, atomic orbital, energy levels, Aufbau Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund’ Rule

HOME LEARNING: notebook update

AGENDA

WHOLE GROUP

Note: Due to Holiday activities and Field Trips, these assignments may extend into other class periods.

Students had a short study session before the exam on electron configuration.

Students then either took the exam on electron configuration and/or corrected exams already taken.

The remainder of class time was spent doing individual assignments, including completing the Electron Configuration Gizmo.

Tuesday - Friday, 5-8 December, 2017

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are electrons arranged in atoms?

LEARNING TARGET: Identify the metallic elements by their characteristic colors in a flame test.

BENCHMARKS: SC.912.P.8.5

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:

-explain that when electrons transition to higher energy levels they absorb energy, and emit energy when they transition to lower energy levels.

-Data chat

BELL RINGER - identify the elements:

1. 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p3 - 
2.  1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s²3d¹⁰4p⁶5s¹. 

or on Thursday/Friday: Write the short hand notation for the electron configuration of: copper, silver, and francium

VOCABULARY: energy, ground state, excited state, emission spectra, photon, Planck’s constant, quantum, quantum mechanical model, electron configuration, atomic orbital, energy levels, Aufbau Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund’ Rule

HOME LEARNING: notebook update

AGENDA

WHOLE GROUP

Students completed the above bell ringers on the appropriate days.

Students completed the lab write up during class. We also discussed the rules and exceptions of how to write electron configurations, including the short hand method.

Students also completed the Gizmo on electron configuration, along with the assessment that accompanies it.

Friday/Monday, 01/04 December, 2017

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are electrons arranged in atoms:

LEARNING TARGET: Identify the metallic elements by their characteristic colors in a flame test.

BENCHMARKS: SC.912.P.8.5

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:

-explain that when electrons transition to higher energy levels they absorb energy, and emit energy when they transition to lower energy levels.

-Data chat

BELL RINGER - Read background info and develop a problem statement.

VOCABULARY: energy, ground state, excited state, emission spectra, photon, Planck’s constant, quantum, quantum mechanical model, electron configuration, atomic orbital, energy levels, Aufbau Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund’ Rule

HOME LEARNING: notebook update

AGENDA

WHOLE GROUP

Students were asked to read the introduction for the lab as their bell ringer, in order to develop a problem statement.

HL 4 was collected and reviewed.

Students set up their lab notebooks for the Flame Test lab. Students then completed the lab portion of the lab. We will write up the remainder of the lab next class.