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Studdnts research ancient texts and compare ancient Greek atomic theories, as used in the production of silver, to modern theories. Full Review »
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Students, in small groups, use media and written script to learn and teach each other about major contributions to the development of the Atomic Theory. Full Review »
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Students review the development of the atomic theory. They create a timeline for all of the atomic theorists and relate their most famous experiment to the science inquiry process. Full Review »
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Students investigate the scientists that have contributed to the modern day atomic theory. They conduct Internet research, develop a table, record data, and produce a webpage about their selected scientist. Full Review »
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Students research the structure of the atom and how that structure has changed throughout history. They compare/contrast four scientist's model of the atom: Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr. Students describe the four forces of nature and their influence on the atom. Full Review »
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Students define the term atom, list the postulates of Dalton's atomic theory and discuss how atomic structure is related to electricity. They analyze isotope, atomic mass, nuclear reactions, radioactivity and subatomic particles. Students explain the roles played by oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen in our world. Full Review »
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Students will recognize and describe how scientific knowledge is subject to modification as new information challenges prevailing theories and as a new theory leads to looking at old observations in a new way. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students research different models of the atom. They create a Powerpoint presentation for the class. Full Review »
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Students apply the processes of scientific inquiry to investigate atomic and nuclear structures of matter. They examine historical atomic theories and they use data from the scattering experiment to analyze and determine if the experiment supports or refutes the prevailing theory. Full Review »
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- 8th - 11th
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Students explore the development of atomic theory. They organize the different atomic models chronologically. Students identify unknown elements using the periodic table and an elements number of protons. Students draw an atom. Full Review »

