LARN 043 C11D3
Start the following in class:
1. In your Journal Notebook write your journal entry on sheets of three holed 8.5 inch by 11 inch ruled paper. In the upper right corner white space of each upward facing page, use a blue or black pen to write your hand in number within a circle followed by your name. To the left of the marginal line, print J43 and circle it. Each journal entry should either be at least a paragraph of exemplary writing and penmanship concerning a single topic, or be a concept map relating chemistry terms. Begin each day’s paragraph with a topic sentence, follow with explained instances, and close with a focused summary statement. The required journal focus question J43 for today is
a. Compare the meanings of the terms kernel or core electrons and valence electrons.
b. Give examples involving electron configurations.
2. Do all the pages in the chapter 5 Formative Test on Electrons in Atoms as a formative assessment to find out some of the things that you do and do not know, and not as a research project.
[If you did not obtain a formative test packet for the chapter in class, go to MNSD Google Drive > Student Resources > Formative Tests and print off a copy of the test for the chapter you are studying. Each chapter test is identified by a name whose last two digits is the chapter number. When you open the chapter formative test the first page will have the words “Chapter Test A” in the title.
For each question or problem challenge, either answer the question to the best of your ability using one or more full sentences, or answer the problem to the best of your ability by recording any numbers and units together with the mathematical operations performed in symbolic terms, along with the solution to the problem which should be circled.
This is an important assignment. Each formative test is a real chapter test that some teachers in other schools might use as a chapter test, so after taking the test, make sure that you understand each unfamiliar word, idea, concept, and problem. Be sure to finish this packet in its entirety.]
- After doing the formative test, but before you demonstrate your understanding on our class’ chapter test, you will check all your responses using green ink check marks √ for each correct response, and by lining out (striking trough) and inserting improved text in green ink when you think the suggested response expresses your present understanding in a better way. In that way make sure that you understand each idea that you originally did not have a complete understanding of. Then you will be able to study more efficiently by studying that which you corrected in green ink.
Recommended for those who have time left in their 45 minute study period, but not required of all:
1. Download and review the concepts discussed in ActivInspire flipcharts by clicking on the following links:
Introduction to Electrons in Atoms
[Flipcharts can also be downloaded by logging onto the MNSD Google Drive and selecting themfrom the Student Resources > ActivInspire folder. ]
2. Take Cornell notes on pages 83 to 122 of the Quantum Mechanical Theory flipchart at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ft9hAr_RjibnB6aER3N2JSNG8 to learn about electron orbitals and how to construct electron configurations for single neutral atoms of elements with atomic numbers 1 through 23.