Journal Entry:

What is the transition metal in ZnO? What charge does it have?

Learning Intentions

• We will learn what color pigments different transition metals will create.

• We will learn how to combine a variety of transition metal compounds to create paint pigments

Closing Task:

You can make paint pigments from transition metal compounds and paint a turkey. 

Content Standards being covered:

Students can use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms.

Student understands why bonding occurs between atoms, what types of bonds form when different elements interact, how the bonds form and properties that arise as result of the bond forming.