This online resource helps students determine if materials are compounds or elements.
The resource is a Scootle interactive where students ‘deconstruct’ different objects to determine if they are compounds or elements.
This is a short activity that would be useful in a flipped classroom or as part of a series of activities in a web quest.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U06 (Year 8)
This online resource explores the development of the atomic model.
The resource is a Scootle website that gives students the opportunity to examine how evidence was collated to eventually suggest the current model of the atom. Students could use this to draw a timeline for the development of atomic models to show how scientific theories result from an accumulation of knowledge.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U06 (Year 9)
This online resource helps consolidate student's understanding of atomic structure through a bingo-like game.
The game involves building atoms from their sub-atomic components, including filling in the electron shells.
They can play individually or against each other (on different computers) to construct specific atoms in order to be the first to reach BINGO!
The repetition of building the atoms' structure is designed to consolidate the student's understanding of the structure of an atom and the differences between the atoms of different elements.
