Science Classroom Connection

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 are to answer the following questions as a review for their chapter test on Wednesday: Pages 166-168, do #’s: 35, 44, 45, 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 77, 85, 86, 87, 90a, and 90d.

We will answer and correct both the study guide for Section 5.3, Electron Configuration, and our virtual lab on the atomic theory. In the time remaining, student will embark upon reviewing chapter 5, Electrons in Atoms, for Wednesday’s chapter test.

Students will visit a subpage of a website called visionlearning.com and review and reinforce the behavior of electrons, elaborate upon Bohr’s model of the atom, comment on line spectra, and reinforce our actual hands-on lab, the Flame Test. Furthermore, students will complete a data table that is based upon the number of electrons in each energy level for the first eleven elements.

Students will reinforce the ground-state electron configuration that we have discussed and practiced last week, complete a data table that is based upon said topic and their orbitals, and be able to draw and analyze the importance of valence electrons through the electron-dot structure model.

ON MONDAY, we will review the three rules on how electrons are arranged in an atom’s orbitals. Furthermore, we will answer and correct the two methods that are used to represent an atom’s electron configuration (Orbital Diagrams and Electron Configuration Notation) as well as elaborate upon the importance and the behavior of the valence electrons of an atom. Time permitting, we will elaborate upon how to draw the electron-dot structure of an element in terms of its symbol and valence electrons.