1. HW: None. No Current Events next week. # 25 – end on Friday, 4/1
Do Now: /18/16
Turn in your element brochure and packet – due now.
Take out Element article HW
Finish ‘It’s Elemental’ sheet started in class yesterday

2. Current events!!

3. Element HW Neon: Titanium: Silicon:
Explain what Neon’s primary role has been since its discovery. Where is it used today?
List three uses for Titanium as discussed in the passage.
Explain where Silicon comes from and how it is used today.
Neon signs (for businesses, car sales)
Neon gas lasers (used in optical research labs)
Alloys
Ship hulls
Paint
In rocks (quartz, amethysts, agates, opals)
Used in concrete, drink glasses, electrical steel

4. It’s Elemental
Purpose: To learn what information can be obtained from the Periodic Table

5. Ne
Al Aluminum
Fe Iron
S Sulfur
C Carbon
Molyb

6. B Boron
K Potass
Beryll
P Phosp
Li Lith
O Oxygen
Na Sodium H

7. Practice- Together: Find the Element:
Notes
Periods: They are rows that go side to side. Elements have very different characteristics. They behave like cousins. (there are 7)
Families or Groups: They are columns that go up and down. Elements have similar properties. They behave the same like family members. (there are 18)
Practice- Together: Find the Element:
Period 1 Family 18 _______
Period 3 Family 18 ______
Period 2 Family 16 _____
Helium
Argon
Oxygen

8. Classwork: Family Fun Read Family Fun: Tour of the Periodic Table
Answer questions on the back of the sheet with your lab partner

10. It separates metals from non-metals.
The first family, Group/Family #1 (Alkali).
Lithium, Sodium, Potassium
Group/Family #17
Halogen
Na + Cl = Table Salt
Like Royalty, they don’t
associate with common elements

11. horizontal
The atomic number increases.
The atomic mass increases. K Ne Mg Fe
They are in the same Group/Family.

12. Another Periodic Table Song!

13. SmartBoard Interactive
How well do YOU know the Elements in the Periodic Table?
Test your skills now!