Thursday, March 10, 2011

Grade 8 Week 17: The Atom

This week we begin the physical science of chemistry.  We will end by blowing stuff up, but we must first begin by finding out what makes that "stuff" up.

How does an atom's structure determine the element's properties?



Contract 17 has students picking an element and contructing its atom or researching quarks.

2 comments:

josh leinau said...

the atom is smaller than the human eye can see is there an item thats even smaller

Kassi said...

Atoms are made up of protons,neutrons, and electrons. Protaons are positivly charged, neutrons have no charge, and electrons are positivly charged.