Electron Location Mapping: Orbital Diagrams and Electron Configurations

Tuesday, December 10th

BAND-AIDS

As we walked into class today, we each got handed a band-aid.  After practicing opening band-aid wrappers with Mrs. Friedmann until we were ready, we were allowed to actually open them in the dark.  If you watch carefully, you can see the inside of the wrapper spark blue when opened quickly.  Band-aid wrappers are triboluminescent because of the breaking of chemical bonds as they are ripped apart.

NOTES

We then took notes on how we can map the location of electrons in the atom.  As per usual, these can be found on Moodle.

HOMEWORK

The first two pages of the sheet titled “Electron Configurations and Orbital Diagrams” are due tomorrow.  Last night’s homework will also be checked in tomorrow as it was not checked in today.

Optional: Read "Bill Bryson - The Mighty Atom" (posted in the Unit 6 Notes folder) for background information.

The due date for the review packet has been moved to next TUESDAY, December 17th, and our unit test will be on Thursday the 19th.

There might also be a quiz on everything we learned so far on FRIDAY of this week...

The next scribe is Peter D.