Science Classroom Connection

Students will identify certain elements based upon their physical and chemical properties as well as be able to read and locate elements in the periodic table in terms of its periods and groups or families, and analyze where each family or group is located based on its energy sublevels/types of orbitals (s, p, d, & f blocks).

We will continue our discussion and elaboration upon the major characteristics of the periodic table by examining closely how a scientist can build upon the work of another in order to synthesize the periodic table as we know today, starting with Antoine Lavoisier and John Newlands through the works of Dmitri Mendeleev that culminates with Henry Moseley who finally organized the modern Periodic Table of the Elements as we know it today.

We will continue our journey through the closer examination of the Periodic Table of the Elements through its characteristics in terms of how it had been put together as well as realize the significant work that had been put forth by several scientists that include Henry Moseley and Dmitri Mendeleev. The latter is to whom the arrangement of Periodic Table of the Elements has been credited over the years even though the physicist Henry Moseley had rearranged the table as we currently know it as the modern Periodic table of the Elements.

Students will be evaluated upon Chapter 5, Electrons in Atoms, that is based upon light and quantized energy, quantum theory and the atom, and the electron configuration of several atoms. Students need to review all pertinent handouts on said topic as a preparation for their chapter test as well as review their short answers that were assigned in their textbook the previous day.

As a final reinforcement upon Electrons in atoms, students need to have completed the following questions as a review for their chapter test on Thursday: Pages 166-168, do #’s: 35, 44, 45, 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 77, 85, 86, 87, 90a, and 90d.