Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Atomic Theory and Nuclear Physics
  • Subject(s):Science
  • Days:6
  • 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: Quantization of Energy
Concept: Nuclear Physics
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How have the various models of the atom contributed to our modern understanding of the atom? (A)

How have the various models of the atom contributed to our modern understanding of the atom? (ET)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is the quantization of energy? (A)

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)

Concept: Quantum Mechanics
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Vocabulary Report

  • nuclear force -
  • atomic nucleus -
  • emission spectrum -
  • atomic bomb -
  • atomic bonding principle -
  • Albert Einstein -
  • atomic number -
  • photon -
  • hydrogen ion -
  • atomic energy -
  • quantized -
  • quantum of enrgy -
  • quantum -
  • isotope -
  • atomic mass -
  • nuclear mass -
  • atomic reaction -
  • atomic theory -
  • binding energy -
  • 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 -