Everyday Chemistry

Lesson 1: Where do we start?

Summary and Bibliography

So let's review the key words and points

• Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
• The smallest compete part of an element is an atom.
• An element is one of over 100 very simple forms of matter, each with unique properties.

For the suggested project in this lesson, you can go to the periodic table web page:

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

pick one of the elements, and consider how it is unique. How was it used in that story? Why does this interest you? What elements do you think about on a daily basis?

Useful resources for this lesson were:
Hess, Fred "Chemistry made simple" Underline New York, Doubleday, 1984

Herr, Norman and Cunningham, James, "Hands-On Chemistry Activities", San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1999

Masterson, William, Slowinski, Emil, and Stanitski, Conrad, "Chemical Principles", New York, Saunders College Publishing, 1981

Suplee, Curt, "Everyday Science Explained", Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1996

Elements - specific material
http://www.chem.queensu.ca/chembook/arti... . Dr. R. Brown, 2000

Some of element information
http://www.mii.org/periodic/MIIperiodicC... . no date or author - used for carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen

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