Science Classroom Connection

Students are to complete their Science Notebook Reading Guide on page 79 that is based upon ionic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity. We will reinforce the atomic and ionic radii as well as ionization energy through a transparency activity.

Students will read and analyze the trends observed in the periodic table and describe how atomic size is defined, how the trends relate to atomic mass, and practice on interpreting trends in atomic radii. Furthermore, students will elaborate upon the ionic radius by describing the atomic size and ionic change and elaborate upon the ionization energy and electronegativity trends in the periodic table.

We will answer and correct our homework on the s-, p-, d-, and f-blocks and reinforce the classification of the elements in terms of their arrangement in the periodic table that is based upon their similar chemical properties as well as elaborate further upon the s-, p-, d-, and f-blocks  by using the periodic table on pages 178-179.

Students will answer and correct pages 74-76 in their reading guide based upon the organizational information about electron configurations of the elements that includes the descriptive relationship between the number of the valence electrons and the chemical properties of atoms. Furthermore, students will relate a group to its block of elements and identify the type of the occupied element in that block or in that group.

We will answer and correct our homework on the physical and chemical properties of the periodic table from the previous day, and we will do a final reinforcement on how the Periodic Table of the Elements have been put together by several scientists that include Antoine Lavoisier, John Newlands, Dmitri Mendeleev, and Henry Moseley.