HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

Basic Education Department

#1 Holy Angel Avenue, Sto. Rosario, Angeles City

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Subject: GRADE 9 SCIENCE Teacher:_______________________
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ACTIVITY TITLE: AN ELEMENTAL TALE: THE GOLD DUST KID

LEARNING TARGETS: To write the chemical name of the elements.
REFERENCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element
MATERIALS: Activity paper, pen

I. Complete the following tale by writing the name of the elements the symbols of which are written
inside the parentheses.

The kid mounted his trusty steed, old (B) _______________. His shooting (Fe)
________________ strapped to his side, he headed out for the bright (Ne) _______________ lights
of Sabattus, aiming to rob the Litchfield stage. There was sure to be a load of precious (U)
_______________ aboard, and probably (K) _______________, too. Inhaling a deep breath of (O)
_______________ he coughed on the (S) from the nearby mills. Since the (Hg) _______________
was climbing, he quenched his thirst with some water, tasting the (Cl) _______________ in all big
cities like that of Wales. As he headed north, his bones ached from (Cu) _______________
deposits built up over years of riding the (Zn) _______________ trail. Overhead a (He)
_______________ filled balloon floated in the breeze; the sun beat down like burning (P)
_______________.

Soon he spotted the stage, guarded only by a sheriff with a (Sn) _______________
badge. “Halt,” he yelled, or “I’ll fill you full of (Pb) _______________. The sheriff drew his gun, but
alas was too slow. The kid’s gun, blazing like flaming (Mg) _______________ did the (C)
_______________ in. Anyone who drew on the Kid should know his life wasn’t worth a plugged (Ni)
_______________. A (Pt) _______________ blonde riding beside the (Al) _______________-
framed coach rode for her life when the Kid pulled some (N) _______________ compounds,
preparing to blow the safe to atoms.

Suddenly, a shout rang out, “Hi-ho (Ag) _______________” and a masked man on a
white horse raced across the (Si) _______________ sands like (Na) _______________ skittering
on water. A (H) ___________ bomb would not have stopped the lawman: the Kid had met his
doom. The rest of his life was to be spent behind (Co) _______________ steel bars, a warning to
all who flirt with danger. Your first detention may be the initial step in a (C) _______________ cop
life of the saga of the (Au) _______________ Dust Kid.

II. Mind Honing:

1. How do we write the symbols of elements?
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2. Give some bases in naming the elements.

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