Monday, October 10, 2011

Periodic Table Families Poster Project

Periodic Table Families Poster Project

You will choose one family from the periodic table to research. Use your book and the Internet to research your family and create a small poster representing it.

Suggested Websites:

· Chemical Elements: www.chemicalelements.com

· Elements: http://dmoz.org/Science/Chemistry/Elements/

The Essentials:

  • Name of Family
  • Elements found in family
  • Number of valence electrons
  • Reactivity
  • Type of elements-metal, nonmetal, metalloid
  • Compounds that can be made from elements

Interesting Facts: List four interesting facts about your family (i.e. are any of the members useful in medicine, industry, or science? Do you use any of the members in your everyday life?).

Friday, July 22, 2011

Summer Science Experiences


Share an experience you had this summer that relates to a topic we will be covering this year.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Understanding Geologic Time

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

7th Grade Science Fossils

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/fossil/index.html

Thursday, January 6, 2011

10th Grade Biology: Punnett Squares Practice

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078778066/student_view0/chapter5/math_practice.html