Monday, Nov. 3rd: FIRST DAY OF QUARTER 2

BIG IDEA: The periodic table gives you tons of information to understand the makeup of elements, creation of the elements, and how elements bond to form compounds. Can you use the periodic table to draw an atom of any given element, explain how it can be created from fusion, and explain how it bonds with other elements in an ionic bond?

1. Warm-up: Draw an atom of sodium, and an atom of chlorine. Explain how sodium was created in a nuclear reaction (alpha capture).
2. Review the warm-up, and go over the big idea and the homework.
3. Choose whom you want to work with for the next 4.5 weeks (until the progress report for Q2). You will be doing a lot more groupwork, which depends on you all teaching each other. Give lots of choices!
4. Go over the Good As Gold answers again. Students will have to make sure that this worksheet is corrected to 100% and READABLE.
5. Have students work in pairs to explain how chlorine and sodium make NaCl (table salt). Debrief.
6. Do chemcatalyst for Connect the Dots (Smells book).
7. Debrief the chemcatalyst. Explain the reason for Lewis Dot structures, and the importance of the valence electrons in creating chemical bonds. In doing this, explain the difference again between a nuclear reaction (adding protons/neutrons to a nucleus, creating new elements, requires huge amounts of energy, just in the sun/stars/high-tech labs/just SOME naturally-occuring elements) and a chemical reaction (combining ELEMENTS, much lower energy, doable in the classroom, can easily break the bonds to get back elements).
8. Do worksheet, Connect the Dots.
9. Go over homework and revisit the “Can you….”

Homework:
1. Type information into the CST worksheet, up through . Email your teacher to get the electronic copy of the worksheet. Then enter the information in small, readable font that is DIFFERENT from the original font. Include section on acids and bases. Due Wednesday.
2. Correct the short-answer section of the final exam to 100%. Explain it to someone at home; get verification signature “_____ has explained each of these answers to me.”