Journal Entry:

Why do we connect concepts we learn to real world topics?

Learning Intentions

• We will learn how concepts we learned in unit 1 connect to ideas in the real world.

Closing Task:

You can write a summary that connects at least one ideas from unit one to the article you read.

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.