1. ATOMIC STRUCTURE Prof.ssa Miriam Castracane Prof.ssa Alfonsina Marucci V A linguistico a.s. 2014/2015

2. CLIL Modulo CLIL in Fisica e Inglese

3. CLIL What is the world made of ? What is the world made of ? What holds it together ? What holds it together ? Eternal questions

4. CLIL Why so many things in this world share the same characteristics ? Why so many things in this world share the same characteristics ? The search for the fundamental

5. CLIL Greece - Empedocles China Wu Xing India India (Samkhya- karikas by Ishvarakrsna 3rd century AD) Who first classified the fundamental elements as earth, air fire and water ?

6. CLIL Today ? By convention there is color by convention sweetness by convention bitterness But in reality there are atoms and space Democritus ( 400 BCE) What did people think around 1900 ?

7. CLIL The periodic table of the elements

8. 1 2 CLIL Is the term atom a misnomer ? Why? I am the very model of a modern atom

9. 1 2 CLIL So, are protons and neutrons fundamental ? So, are protons and neutrons fundamental ? Read the text : Read the text : “The structure of the atom “ Is the nucleus fundamental ?

10. CLIL This picture is quite distorted This picture is quite distorted This is the modern atom model

11. CLIL the electrons and quarks would be less than the diameter of a hair and the entire atom’s diameter would be…. If we drew the atom to scale and made protons and neutrons a centimeter in diameter then…..

12. 1 CLIL 99,999999999999 99999999 % of an atom’s volume is…… of an atom’s volume is…… Just empty space! Just empty space! …. greater than the length of thirty football fields !

13. CLIL Improve your glossary !!!!!