| Lesson Number |
At-Home Activity
(Parental involvement and/or supervision are essential while
students carry out these activities.) |
Getting Started:
The Periodic Table |
Compare the periodic table you created
in the Try This activity with the one located inside the
back cover of your textbook. |
4.1
Organizing the Elements |
Study the periodic table in your textbook
and prepare some questions related to it. Bring your questions
to your next science class. |
4.2
Activity: Inventing a Periodic Table |
Devise an organizational scheme for
your bedroom or dresser. What criteria would you use? |
4.3
Activity: Exploring the Modern Periodic Table |
Select an element from column 1 or
column 2 of the periodic table, then identify the element that
is located either above or below it. Research and compare the
chemistry of the two elements.
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4.4
Groups of Elements |
Read the labels on some household
products and identify ingredients whose names end in -ide.
Record your findings in a table with the headings PRODUCT, USE,
COMPOUNDS, and ELEMENTS IN COMPOUNDS. |
4.5
Investigation: Groups of Elements and Compounds |
Locate some household products that
contain Group I, Group II, Group VI and Group VII elements. For
each group, make a chart that lists each PRODUCT, its USE, and
COMPOUND. |
4.6
Case Study: Elemental Magic |
Locate several different types of
plastic around your home. Suggest how their uses reflect their
properties. (For example: stretch wrap is make so it can deform;
polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is made to keep its shape, as in plastic
pipes.)
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4.7
Explore an Issue: Ozone: A Global Environmental Hazard |
Investigate what will be done when
your refrigerator is no longer working and needs to be discarded.
Can it just be put out with the regular garbage, or does something
have to be done first? Contact your municipality to find out.
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4.8
Investigation: Linking Atomic Structure and Periodicity |
As a follow-up to this investigation,
make a microtray for a different property. Invent another method
of making a three-dimensional graph. |
| Career
Profile: Science Journalist |
Locate a science-related newspaper
or magazine article. How much science background do you think
the writer has?
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| Chapter
4 Review |
The Chapter Review (pp. 126-127) in
your textbook lists all the Key Expectations you have covered
in the chapter and identifies the specific lessons in which the
knowledge and skills have been developed.
You can use the Key Expectations list to help you create a personal
study guide in preparation for an end-of-chapter test:
- Copy down the list of learning expectations from your textbook.
- For each learning expectation, locate the appropriate lesson(s)
in the unit where the expectation was covered. These are identified
in parentheses at the end of each expectation (e.g., 4.2).
- Flip to the appropriate lesson(s) for each expectation and
make study notes of the key ideas or skills you learned.
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