Nt1310 Unit 6 Study Guide

|Lesson one – Atomic structure and mass |
|1. How to represent atoms. |Starter – what is an atom? What do we call the particles that make up an |Can represent atoms showing atomic number |Model of an atom. |Atomic mass worksheet |
|2. The relative masses of protons, |atom? What are their properties? |and mass number. |Worksheet | |
|neutrons and electrons. |Demo A model of an
The total number of protons and |there are a few good animations of this. |Explain how isotopes of the same atom |IWB flipchart | |
|neutrons in an atom is called the mass |Activity 1 Label diagram of an atom, What provides the mass of an atom? |differ. | |
|Periodic Tables, work out the Name, Symbol and atomic mass of the first 20 | | | |
|HT – The relative atomic mass of an |elements. |HT – calculate Ar from provided data. | | |
|element (Ar) compares the mass of the |Plenary: Atomic structure quiz on ppt. | | | |
|element to 12C isotope. | |Explain that atomic masses are relative to | | |
| |HT - Mass of an element is compared to Carbon12 and therefore the mass of |12C isotope. | |