Lesson Plan for week ending 0301
Monday:

0227BW: The valence electrons of an atom have the highest energy levels and are involved in chemical bonding. Valence electrons help determine the chemical properties of an atom. A chemical bond is the force of attraction that holds atoms together; attraction causes the interaction of electrons between atoms.


0227CW: Read pages 358, 359 Complete fill-ins. Draw a model of your periodic table element (card project) showing the arrangement of electrons about the nucleus.

0227HW: Why do the elements in each group of the periodic table have similar properties? P 360, 361

Tuesday:

FCAT Writes-- no bellwork, classwork, or homework

Wednesday:

0229BW: The elements within each group of the periodic table have the same number of valence electrons. As a result, the elements in each group have similar properties.

0229CW: Read pages 360, 361 complete fill-ins. Write the answers to \"What are the trends in the Periodic Table\" lab on your classwork paper.

0229HW: How many valence electrons does Xenon 54 have? How many neutrons does the element Xenon have? Xenon is a noble gas and has 131.293 amu
LAB: 201

Thursday:

0301BW: Metal atoms react by losing their valence electrons. Non-metal atoms become stable when they gain or share electrons to have 8 valence electrons.

In all elements, the number of prtons equals the number of electrons. The amu, atomic mass units, is the total of the atomic number (protons) plus the neutrons.

0301CW: Read page 362, 363 Complete all fill-ins and questions. Write answers to p 363 1a, b, c.

0301HW: Review your bell work notes to prep for the Quiz on 10.1

Friday: Quiz on 10.1

Lesson Plan for week ending 0224
Monday:
President’s day

Tuesday:

0221BW John Dalton, an English chemist, theorized that atoms could not be divided into smaller parts. P 343

0221CW J.J. Thompson believed that negative charged particles called electrons were scattered throughout an atom, like seeds in a watermelon. P 344

0221HW Based on his experiments, Ernest Rutherford, suggested atoms were mostly empty space with a positive charge at its center. P 344-345

LAB: How Do Ions Form? P 203

Wednesday:

0222BW In 1913, Niels Bohr, a Danish scientist, suggested that electrons have specific orbits, like the planets orbiting the sun. p 345

0222CW The Cloud model suggest electrons float in a cloud about the nucleus based on their energy levels, yet do not orbit the nucleus like a planet p 346

0222HW In 1932, English scientist James Chadwick showed that neutrons exist in the nucleus of atoms. P 247

LAB: Sharing Electrons p 205

Thursday:

0223BW It takes almost 1,840 electrons to equal the mass of a proton; however, their particles give off equal, but opposite charges. P 348

0223CW Atoms with the same number of protons, but different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes. P 349

0223HW Prep for Chapter 9 test

LAB:  What Do Metals Do? P 206

Friday:

Chapter 9 test

Please review your bellwork, classwork, and homework notes for your test this Friday.

Knowing the following information is essentail for passing the test....

* The atomic number of an element is based on the number of protons in its nucleus.
    
* From an element’s location in the periodic table, you can predict its properties.    

* In an atom, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.

* noble gases do not ordinarily form compounds because their outer electron shells are complete with 8 electrons

 * most elements are metals in the periodic table
    
* alkali metals are so reactive that the metals are never found as uncombined elements in nature

 * In Ernest Rutherford’s gold foil experiment, Rutherford infered that an atom’s positive charge must be clustered in a tiny region in its center.
   
* At room temperature, more than half of the nonmetal elements are gases.
    
* nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen are elements especially important to the chemistry of life.

* metals are malleable, ductile, and good conductors of electricity


    
  
   

All students have received their id and password to FCAT Explorer in preparation for FCAT. There are 250 questions in total that students need to work on completing for FCAT preparation. There doesn't appear to be a specific number count for students to see the number of questions completed; however, the "circles" in the main menu have an activity bar that indicates how many questions are completed. It is up to each student to access a computer and complete their FCAT preparation. All the time needed to complete this task cannot be done at school as teachers are only alloted so much computer lab time. Students should be completing 25 to 50 questions per week and at this point should be about halfway completed with all the FCAT practice.

Login details....

http://www.fcatexplorer.com

Student ID: last name/ first initial

Student password: 10/ first 4 letters of last name/ birth month and birth day

For example: 10juneXXXX

bellwork, classwork, and homework is now presented in the form of notes. The students are to copy down the notes and save these as preparation for each chapter's test. In response to each "note" students need to look up an additional note from the page as listed. Classroom original question format will be included in classroom discussion.