Flame Test Lab

Evaluation/ Assessment Objective Today I will be able to: Analyze how metals emit different amounts of energy when heated by completing a flame test. Evaluation/ Assessment Informal assessment – Listening to group interactions and discussions during the flame test lab. Formal Assessment – Analyzing student responses to the flame test lab questions and to the exit ticket.

Lesson Sequence Warm – Up Explain: Flame Test Lab Safety Explore: Flame Test Lab Elaborate: Flame Test Lab Questions Exit Ticket

Warm - up How can we add energy to electrons (in a lab setting) to excite them? Why do different elements produce different spectra? Compare your data table with the people around you. Is it correct? Are you missing anything?

Objective Today I will be able to: Analyze how metals emit different amounts of energy when heated by completing a flame test.

Homework Have a great weekend 

Agenda Warm – Up Flame Test Lab Safety Flame Test Lab Exit Ticket

Flame Test Lab Safety Must wear goggles, aprons, closed toe shoes, tie long hair back, no baggy clothing 9 stations that you will rotate through Must follow Ms. Ose’s instructions When directed you will Move to the station Turn on the gas and light the Bunsen burner Ms. Ose will turn out the lights You will place 1 wooden splint soaked in a metallic salt in the flame and observe the color change Ms. Ose will turn the lights on You will record your observations on your worksheet When Ms. Ose says so, you will rotate Failure to follow the directions or any horseplay will result in removal from the lab.

Ms. Ose will select the groups Flame Test Lab Ms. Ose will select the groups Once you find your group head to your station and put on goggles and your apron.

Exit Ticket You have been hired as a pyrotechnician at Phantom fireworks. You have been asked to design a new firework with 3 different colors. How would you design the firework so that when it went off you would have 3 different colors? Draw a picture of your design