1. Flame Test Lab

2. Evaluation/ Assessment
Objective
Today I will be able to:
Design a proper data table for the flame test lab
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.

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

4. Warm - up
How can we add energy to electrons (in a lab setting) to excite them?
What do atoms produce different colors of light when heated in a flame?

5. Objective Today I will be able to:
Design a proper data table for the flame test lab
Analyze how metals emit different amounts of energy when heated by completing a flame test.

6. Homework Finish Fireworks Lab Questions
Study for electron configuration quiz tomorrow
STEM Fair Conclusion Due November 14

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

8. Flame Test Prelab

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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