Directions: Use the provided materials from your instructor to make some observations and learn about parts of
matter.
1. Make a few observations:
Draw what you see:
This is an example of
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Because all of the smaller
individual pieces (the
atoms) in it are the same.
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2. Make a few observations:
Draw what you see:
This is an example of
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Because all of the smaller
individual pieces (the
atoms) in it are the same.
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3. Make a few observations:
Draw what you see:
This is an example of
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Because all of the smaller
individual pieces (the
atoms) in it are the same.
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4. Make a few observations:
Draw what you see:
This is an example of
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Because __________________
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Directions: Now, go to the other group selected by your instructor and make some observations about their atom.
5. What is different/the same about
Draw what you see:
this atom compared to your atom?
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This is an example of an
atom of the element
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6. What is different/the same about
Draw what you see:
this atom compared to your atom?
What element do you
think this atom is?
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How do you know?
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7.The following picture represents an element.
How can you tell by looking at the atoms?
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Copper
8.The following picture ALSO represents an
element. How can you tell by looking at the
atoms? ___________________________________
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Mercury
So, what is an element? Give a definition related
element is the simplest form
of matter. An element is _______________
to atoms: An
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So, all atoms of one element _________________
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but are _____________________ from atoms of
another element.