Group Work Day-Alternative Energy

In class today, we worked in our Alternative Energy Groups.  Our goal was to create a presentation for tomorrow that included these key concepts for EACH energy type represented in the group: solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy, hydroelectric energy and biomass energy.  For each energy type, the minimum that should be shared in your presentation for EACH energy is the following:

*What is it?
*How does it work?
*Where do you find it?
*Advantages of using it?
*Choose one type that is the BEST-state Why it's better than the rest.  Sell it!

As a group, they will be presenting their information to the class and Post Falls Energy Committee tomorrow!  Be prepared.  The rubric on how you will be scored is below as well.


Energy Group Presentation Rubric

Bohr Model Activity

Today we created Bohr models using tennis balls, golf balls and students.  Bohr models are used in order to model different elements.  We practiced making the elements at least Hydrogen through Boron as well as some ions and isotopes as well.  From the activity, I wanted students to see the correlation between the Group # and the # of valence electrons as well as the Period # equal to the number of shells the element had.  Once done with this activity, we had a worksheet that just reinforces using the periodic table.  Tomorrow we will have a paper to review what we did with Bohr models.

Identifying Elements/Periodic Table Crossword