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Virginia Department of Education

Elements and Electron Configuration

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's electronic! Pupils uncover elements and their electron configurations as they explore mass, groupings, correct charges, and sliding theory. Young scientists learn creative ways to remember various elements and correctly classify...
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PPT
Science Geek

Valence Electrons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
There is a lot of negativity when studying electrons, but this presentation makes the experience more positive by beginning with the definition of a valence electron and breaking down the number of valence electrons by groups on the...
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Curated OER

Making Models of Atoms and Isotopes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this models of atoms and isotopes worksheet, learners use marshmallow of different colors to represent the protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom. Students make models of the 3 isotopes of hydrogen. They draw a diagram of each and...
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Atomic Mobile

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Structure an activity around atoms. Learners use their knowledge of the parts of atoms—the protons, neutrons, and electrons—to build a model of a carbon atom. Scholars create a nucleus by using clay balls to represent the protons and...
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Interactive3:20
Scholastic

Study Jams! Electricity

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Shock your physical science class using this video to teach the basics of static electricity. Electricity is defined,and electrons are differentiated from protons on an atom model. The use of hydropower and wind are explained as ways of...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Exploring Electron Properties

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Bring a historic chemistry experiment to life in your classroom! Introduce pupils to Thompson's ground-breaking discovery of the electron through a cathode ray simulation. The resource allows users to study the behavior of both electrons...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

The Real Numbers: Adding Electrons

For Students 6th - 8th
Get a charge out of a great resource! Scholars use an interactive to explore addition and subtraction of integers. They add or remove electrons in an atom model to consider its charge.
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PPT
Curated OER

Atoms and the Periodic Table

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Familiarize your new chemists with the periodic table of elements by contemplating this collection of slides. Element groups are identified, atoms are defined, and nuclide notation is explained. Isotopes are also mentioned. The topics...
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Curated OER

Drawing Lewis Structures

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this drawing Lewis structures worksheet, students read about the 5 steps taken to draw Lewis structures for atoms and molecules. These include identifying the valence electrons, placing pairs of electrons between atoms to be bonded,...
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Curated OER

This Little Light of Mine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary schoolers discover how electricity travels and create an electron flow through a closed circuit. They work together to make a closed circuit and observe the electricity being made. This outstanding lesson plan is well worth...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science Puzzlers, Twisters, and Teasers: Chemical Bonding

For Students 7th - 10th
What a cute approach to chemical bonding! Atoms all have human names and are attending at a dance. Who will pair up with whom? By reading the characteristics, and not the element name, chemistry whizzes figure out the bonding pairs....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Matter and Atoms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this matter and atoms worksheet, students will fill in the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons for five different atoms. Then students will fill in the blanks of five statements with words from a word bank. Finally, students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's the Matter? Locating Electrons in an Atom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars roll dice in order to simulate the probability of locating an electron in a certain region around the nucleus.
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Worksheet
T. Trimpe

Atomic Basics

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Get down to basics with these worksheets on the structure of atoms. Challenging young chemists to identify information from the periodic table and create Bohr diagrams and Lewis dot structures for different elements, this resource would...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Losing and Gaining Electrons

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electron activity, students read about how atoms lose and gain electrons and how they become ions. They are given a table with nine elements and they give the electron configuration, the number of electrons, the number of protons...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Atomic Electron Configuration and Chemical Periodicity

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this electron configuration and periodicity worksheet, students answer fifteen questions about periodic trends and they analyze orbital diagrams indicating location of electrons.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Atom

For Students 9th - 12th
In this atom worksheet, students read about the structure of the atom including its subatomic particles and John Dalton's theory of the atom. Students also read about the differences between atoms, molecules and compounds. They answer 30...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Atoms and Static Electricity

For Students 6th - 8th
In this chemistry instructional activity, students learn about atoms and static electricity. They read about these topics and then use what they learned to answer the 11 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Curated OER

6260 Atoms Test

For Students 11th
In these chapter test worksheets students will multiple choice questions on atoms. Students will complete 77 questions on atoms to complete the chapter test.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Location of Electrons

For Students 9th - 12th
In this location of electrons worksheet, students read about the quantum mechanical model of the atom and the location of electrons. They complete a table given eleven elements with the sublevel notation, the Bohr notation and the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Atoms Family Album

For Students 5th - 7th
In the atom activity, students read a story about the "Atoms Family" and are given descriptions of the structures of atoms through the story. Students interpret the descriptions by drawing the described atom structure, they name of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Quantum Numbers and Electron Configuration Worksheet

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electron worksheet students find values for the given letters including their subshells and in which orbital it occurs. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What do Atoms Look Like?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this atoms worksheet, students complete 58 questions about the atomic radius of atoms, the ionization energy, the valence electrons, metals, non-metals and semi-metals and the families of elements.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Introduction to Atoms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this atoms worksheet, students answer four different sets of questions related to atoms (fill in the blank, multiple choice, word puzzle and true and false).

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