Anatomy of an Element
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Introductory Activities:

  •      Download Pretest and download the Periodic Table for them to use.
  •      Use will also need a kitchen timer or a timer that sounds for them to keep track of how long they are on the computer.  You can purchase one at a Radio Shack for about $12 that give a count down of time every five minutes and the last five minutes, it gives a count down every one minute.
  •     Go to history and alternate designs web site to get some background information.
  •     Purchase a Periodic Table Chart at a Teacher's Store.  They are about $4.00.
  •      Download  Stacy Miller's lesson plans that you will be using and get what you need for those experiments.  Her plans have downloadable pages to use as well.
  •     Also, download a vocabulary sheet for them to acquaint them with the vocabulary that they will be needing.
  •      You will need a handful of buttons for the button activity.  These can be purchased from a Wal-Mart at $3.00 for $4.00. You will need a worksheet for this as well.  Download worksheet.  
  •      Grading Rubrics for button activity, element research activity, and comic strip activity.
  •      Download worksheet for atoms.  Answers included. This will go with First Visit to computer to learn about Matter and Atoms.

Enabling Activities:

 

Culminating Activity:

  • This will require 8X11" white xerox or computer paper, rulers for drawing boxes, colored pencils, crayons, markers, or some type of writing medium.  Also, it would be nice to have a few comic strips from the newspaper to show and talk about.   Roger Armstrong's book #220 How to Draw Comic Strips is super for showing how to do balloons, expressions, movement, and composition of boxes.  The publisher is Walter Foster Publishing, Inc.  Walter Foster Publishing has other books which may provide informative instruction such as:  #23 Story Cartoons, #24 Comic Characters, #221 Creating Cartoon Characters, and #134 Animal Cartoons for drawing animals.   
  • Grading Rubric 
  • Download Posttest.

 

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Last revised:   06/28/01

Linda Shumard/ lshumard@icoe.k12.ca.us

Westside Elementary 

El Centro, CA   92243