Activity Overview
In this lesson, students will plot and analyze the periodic properties (melting point, boiling point, density, electronegativity, and first ionization).
Objectives
- Students will learn how certain properties of the elements tend toward a periodic similarity when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number.
- Students will note the intervals between similarities and the relationship between similar elements.
Vocabulary
- periodic table
- atomic number
- atomic mass
- ionization energy
- Periodic Law
- Z
- Zeff
About the Lesson
This lesson involves the periodic trends of certain properties of atoms.
As a result, students will:
- Graph pertinent data and observe the trends that occur.
- Answer questions to demonstrate their understanding of the periodic trends.
- Learn the Periodic Law.