Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Tuesday, Sept. 30th 2008: The Neutron's Importance

BIG IDEA: We are all made of atoms that all have the same parts.

1. Warm-up: Chemcatalyst, Subatomic Heavyweights, pg. 51
2. Bill Bryson reading.
3. Subatomic Heavyweights activity, pg. 52-54.
4. Review activity.
5. Homework written down, explained (see below).
6. Honors Chem: Standard 1f: Review Rutherford’s gold foil experiment and how trans-uranium elements were made.
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/ruther14.swf
http://web.fccj.org/~ethall/uranium/uranium.htm;
http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/101-150/article130_body.html
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2006/NR-06-10-03.html

Homework: 1. text, pg. 53-54, due Thurs. 2. Quarter project: analyze data, report on patterns, sources of error (Due Thurs.)

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