Do Now

1. Do Now Do Now: What do the words "related" and "family“ mean? Give an example from your life. Draw a picture. Put your homework in the middle of your desks and someone will collect it.

2. Do Now Do Now: What do you need to know to determine an element’s identity? Put your homework in the middle of your desks and someone will collect it.

3. Today’s Schedule Homework: Simply Symbols • Agenda: • Pass back quizzes, go over results • Investigation: Missing Alien • Essential Questions • What makes up matter? • How do the parts of matter affect its properties? Announcements: Tutorials TODAY from 3:30- 5:00

4. What do they mean?

5. Confidential: Late last night, a low-flying alien spacecraft was spotted flying in the sky by people driving down the intersection of 183 and Burnet Road. At 11: 42 PM a large explosion followed by an enormous flash of light was reported near the Taco Cabana, just west of Burnet Middle School. A family of aliens was taken into custody, but there is reason to believe an additional alien is on the loose. Examine and sort the cards provided and make a drawing of the missing alien to give the authorities.

6. Missing Alien • Sort the alien cards using our definitions of related and family. • Record all patterns in your composition book. • Predict what the missing alien would look like. • Draw your missing alien on the card provided by your teacher.

7. So how did you do? Characteristics of aliens: __________________________________________ Rows organized by: _________________________ Columns organized by: ______________________ Missing Alien Picture:

8. Exit Slip Exit Slip- Describe the properties of the Alien Family. How did you arrange your Alien Family cards? Describe the patterns in your cards for the rows and for the columns.

9. Exit Slip Exit Slip- How are electrons arranged in energy levels? How many electrons can fit in each level?