4/7/20

The atom project

Refresh: Make sure you have your laptop as you will need it later
in the lesson

Objectives:
Keywords/ processes
The atom project
Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6

• Understand • Sign up to • Organise and

the success your plan your
criteria for peergrade project work
the atom class
project

Recall &
Describe & explain Apply and evaluate
remember
 The atom project: What is it?
The aim - is to learn about the structure of atoms including:
• Basic structure in terms of protons neutrons and electrons and their position in the atom

Plan
• Isotopes, radio-isotopes and their uses
• Calculation of relative atomic mass from experimental data
• The evidence for energy levels and sub-levels within atoms
– Atomic emission spectroscopy
– Ionisation energy

Monitor
• Full electron configuration – using levels and sub-levels
• Solution of problems involving energy levels, with the use of E = hv

Outcomes – In three parts

Evaluate
1. Collaborate to create a video revision resource
2. Assess your own work using peer grade
3. Assess others using peer grade

Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project

 The atom project: Making a revision
resaourtce
As a group you will produce a revision resource. This
resource will be submitted as a video and should be a rich,

Plan
interactive learning resource that meets the following the
following requirements:
• Describes and explains the structure of atoms, ions and their isotopes in terms

Monitor
of protons, neutrons and electrons
• Discusses the various isotopes of the element, their abundance and their uses
• Describes the uses of some common radioisotopes
• Cover all of the learning objectives given in the objective list.

Evaluate
• Includes a workbook, or questions of some sort with work answers – this may
be in the form of QR codes to make it more interactive.

Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project

 The atom project: Self and peer assessment
• Later in the course you will be completing internal investigations
(both a mock and a full real IA). You need to be able to interpret

Plan
success criteria (rubrics) effectively.
• This process allows you to practice interpreting these in multiple
ways:

Monitor
– Evaluating your own work helps you to understand applying the criteria
– Evaluating others work allows you to see how others have interpreted
the criteria.
– Giving feedback to others allows me to check if your properly understand

Evaluate
the criteria, so we can improve.
– Getting multiple feedback can help you see where you could have
improved from multiple perspectives

Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project

 The revision video
The goal is to make a revision resource but the style and structure
of the video is down to you and your group:

Plan
• An actual presentation with all the group members being filmed.
• A YouTube documentary
• Stop motion video (whiteboard or other)

Monitor
• A PowerPoint presentation with diagrams, simple notes, photographs, an
embedded stop-motion animation, recorded voice notes spoken over the top
that is then screen grabbed as a video for submission
• You may have your video point to other resources so that the video is more
streamlined, this can be done using:

Evaluate
– QR codes
– A wiki with embedded video, animations, links to resources and so on
• Some combination of any of the above or entirely new things.

Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project

 Peergrade: How to join the class

Plan
Monitor
Evaluate
Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project
• Sign up to your peergrade class
 Peergrade: Submitting an assignment

Plan
Monitor
Evaluate
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 Peergrade: How to give feedback

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Monitor
Evaluate
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 Peergrade: How to give feedback reactions

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Monitor
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 The atom project: Planning
Planning (goal setting)
Monitoring (assess your progress while you are doing the task)

Plan
Evaluation (how effective was your plan and implementation)
Asking questions to guide your project:
• Planning (goal setting)
• ‘What resources will I need to complete the project?’
• ‘What equations/ theory do I need to check?’

Monitor
• ‘Where do I start?’
• Monitoring (assess your progress while you are doing the task)
• ‘Am I doing well?’
• ‘Am I finding this challenging?’

Evaluate
• ‘Am I fulfilling my roile in the group?’
• Evaluation (how effective was your plan and implementation)
• ‘How did I do?’
• ‘Did my plan/ implementation work?’
• ‘How could I improve next time?’

Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project

• Sign up to your peergrade class
• Organise and plan your project work
 The atom project: Brainstorming
• Use the booklet to brainstorm ideas in your group, think about the
skills you and others in your group have… then start to fill out this

Plan
table in your booklet

Monitor
Evaluate
Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project
• Sign up to your peergrade class
• Organise and plan your project work
 The aom project: Planning

Plan
Monitor
Evaluate
Objective: • Understand the success criteria for the atom project
• Sign up to your peergrade class
• Organise and plan your project work