Elemental Superhero! (Or Villain)

Due: Tuesday September 30, 2014

-Choose an element (everyone is has a different one)

-Come up with a cool superhero name for your element!

-Make a poster about your superhero

Include the following items on your poster

-Element name

-Super hero name

-Atomic mass

-When it was discovered

-Original names (if it was ever called anything else)

-Origin of its name

-Atomic symbol

-Atomic number

-10 properties of the element (boiling point, melting point, vapor point, reactivity with other elements…)

- The picture must include 5 qualities of the element.  For example, if you have the element sulfur, the superhero uniform uniform or skin must be yellow since sulfur has a characteristic yellow color.

-  Incorporate 3 uses that your character can do.

Examples

1. If your element has a high melting point,you might say that your superhero can move through fire to save others.

2. If your element is a gas, you might say that your villain can sneak through a crack into a room.

3.  If your element explosively reacts with water, you might say that your super hero uses water to create explosions to stop his/her enemies.

Ruberic

Thursday September 24, 2014

Periodic Table

-18 columns

-7 rows

-'invented' by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869

                -He predicted properties of missing elements

                -He was mostly correct

                -It was further refined and filled out

-Each group (column) tells us about the properties

-Left to right decreases in atomic radius

-Left to right increases in electronegativity

-Left to right increases in ionization energy

Question:

1) What are some properties of metals

2) What are some properties of metalloids

3) What are some properties of nonmetals

Lewis Dot Structure

I will introduce the Lewis Dot Structure.

I will give students a paper to practice the Lewis Dot Structure

Worksheet

Wednesday September 24, 2014

Physical vs. Chemical Change:

-characteristics of both
-examples of both

Atomic Theory of Matter

-List the theories and explain them in your own words.

Edit your Periodic Table

-write the number of valence electrons it wants to gain or loose above the group. (the transition metals are unlabled.)
-hint: it should be +1, -1 up to and including +4, -4
-Carbon is +4, -4

Tuesday September 23, 2014

-We reviewed the states of matter

-We drew the Solid, Liquid, Gas states of matter at the atomic level.
-We talked about how the atomic level predicts how the matter will act. (solid, little atomic movement, frozen in place)

-Classification of matter

-The difference between Mixture and Solution
-Difference between Pure substance and a Mixture
-Separation of mixtures
-We did a fun lab with filtration.

Research and answer the below questions:

1) Will passing salt water through a filter cause the salt to be filtered out?
2) If you pass a mixture of water and baking soda through a filter what will happen?
3) If you pass a mixture of corn starch and water through a filter what will happen?
4) if you pass a mixture of 'dirt' and water through a filter what will happen?
5) If you pass colored water through a filter what will happen?

define:

1) homogeneous
2) heterogeneous

Research-

1) some people think that there is plenty of fresh water on Earth because we can just filter the salt from salt water. Is that true?

Monday September 22, 2014-

Define:

       -Accuracy

       -Precision

We did a fun lab with vinegar and baking soda to reinforce the Scientific Method

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