Atomic Theory Research Project

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To find areas of specific interest,
on the outlined topics:

 
     
 

Multiple Intelligences

 
     
 

CELs
(common essential learnings)

 
     
 

Incorporation of Aboriginal/Métis content

 
     
 

Chemistry 20 Curriculum

 
     
  Cross-Curricular Connections  
     
  Information Covered Prior to Beginning the Unit  
     
  Adaptations  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







 

 
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  The purpose of this exercise is to introduce you to the science, controversy, politics, and ingenious discoveries that helped shape the atomic theory through time. Also, to help you realize that them model continues to change as our understanding of technology continues to sharpen.  
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Select Contributors to the Atomic Theory:

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Leucippus & Democritus
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Aristotle Alchemists
Robert Boyle aa
John Dalton
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William Crookes
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J.J. Thompson
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Wilhelm Wien Max Planck
Albert Einstein aa
Milliken
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Ernest Rutherford
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Niels Bohr
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Louis de Broglie Werner Heisenberg
Erwin Schrödinger aa
Bothe & Becker - Marie Currie
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Sir James Chadwick

The Presentation
   Reports should be 4-10 minutes long. Identify things such as place of birth, influences in the scientist's life, how society may have tampered with his/her work, what their contribution was to the atomic theory and the experiment that helped support their contribution to the model where applicable. The information about the scientist may be presented anyway you wish, a short play, a self-made video, a speech, model...

Marking Scheme:

  Information/research on the scientist:
  1                               2                             3                          4                             5
   not covered            1-3  related items                4-5 related items         6-7 related items            I feel as though
                                                                                                                                                         I knew him well

  Information pertaining to the model:
  1                               2                             3                           4                               5
   not covered          brushed on topic           discussed contribution       discussed contribution       well explained
                                                                     or method used to derive      and method to derive      understandable
                                                                                                                                                                    terms

  Time spent organizing presentation:
  1                               2                             3                           4                               5
   didn't know                   stumbled                             stumbled a                 well rehearsed             definite air of
   what you were            frequently                            few times                  well organized            professionalism
   doing

  Time spent creating materials:
  1                               2                             3                           4                               5
   no materials         cardboard paper with         hand built materials            well built, relevant             professional
   created               internet pictures pasted          effort is evident       multiple or detailed materials          materials

  Attack of the project. How you decided to Present:
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   read off                  read off a sheet                 read off a sheet       presentation went          well edited video
   a sheet                 added a few over                added little song       in a few directions         or interesting self
                                          heads                               or a play             really kept student       created play, put self
                                                                                                                               interest           image on the line,
                                                                                                                                                     incorporated music

This is a pairs assignment, if you wish to work individually, that is also an option.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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