Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Atomic Theory and Nuclear Physics
  • Subject(s):Science
  • Days:9
  • Grade(s):11, 12
Key Learning: The atom is the source of energy.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
What are the ways energy can be released from an atom?
   
Concept: Models of the Atom How have the various models of the atom contributed to our present model of the atom?
Concept: Quantum Mechanics
Concept: Nuclear Physics
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How have the various models of the atom contributed to our present model of the atom? (A)

How have the various models of the atom contributed to our present model of the atom? (ET)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What information is provided by an emission spectrum? (A)

What information is provided by an emission spectrum? (ET)

How are energy-level diagrams related to emission spectra? (A)

How are energy-level diagrams related to emission spectra? (ET)

How does our model of the atom explain the wave and particle properties of light? (A)

How does our model of the atom explain the wave and particle properties of light? (ET)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What determines the stability of a nucleus? (A)

What information is provided by an emission spectrum? (ET)

What determines the stability of a nucleus? (ET)

How does our model of the atom explain the wave and particle properaties of light? (A)

Where does the nuclear binding energy come from? (A)

Where does the nuclear binding energy come from? (ET)

What happens when a nucleus decays? (A)

How does our model of the atom explain the wave and particle properaties of light? (ET)

What happens when a nucleus decays? (ET)

What determines the stability of a nucleus? (A)

What is the difference between fission and fusion? (A)

What is the difference between fission and fusion? (ET)

Additional Info:

The asterisk(*) next to the above vocabulary terms indicates essential FCAT vocabulray. Holt Physics textbook, ancillary materials and resource attachment

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Vocabulary Report

  • atomic bomb -
  • Albert Einstein -
  • atomic nucleus -
  • atomic number -
  • nuclear force -
  • atomic bonding principle -
  • photon -
  • atomic energy -
  • hydrogen ion -
  • isotope -
  • quantum -
  • atomic mass -
  • atomic reaction -
  • nuclear mass -
  • quantum of energy -
  • quantum mechanics -
  • radioactive isotope -
  • atomic theory -
  • *atomic number -
  • binding energy -
  • *mass number -
  • half-life -
  • hydrogen bomb -
  • nuclear decay rate -
  • nuclear stability -
  • radioactive dating -
  • radioactive decay -
  • rate of nuclear decay -
  • release of energy -
  • spontaneous nuclear energy -
  • *nulcear fission -
  • *nuclear fusion -