Chemical+Families


 * Chemical Families **

You will work with other members of your chemical family of elements to create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that will be posted to the class wiki. Find the members of your new group and create an account at docs.google.com. To create this account, make up an email address that uses your first initial and the first three letters of your last name and ends in @mailcatch.com (djoh@mailcatch.com). Go to [|www.mailcatch.com] and sign in using your made up email address. Copy and paste the link to respond to the email from google docs to activate your account. Your username must be something that I can recognize as you so that you can recieve credit for your work on this project but your password should be something you can easily remember.

The first person to create the account must invite the other members to the group using the email addresses listed on each element's page. You must also invite me using the following address debbie.johnson@tasd.net. Once your presentation is complete, post it on this page below. You have been asked by the American Chemical Society to design a Power Point presentation for distribution at local libraries. They have asked you to prepare a presentation about a particular family/group in the Periodic Table. The presentation will be shown to local citizens and must be presented in such a way that the average reader would understand it. It must contain the following information on the appropriate slide as indicated. ** Title Slide: ** Must show a minimum of the group name and symbols for the elements in the group. You will obtain more points for additional artwork, color, etc. ** Second Slide **  : Must list //important physical and chemical properties// of the group. You must include the number of valence electrons on this slide. ** Fourth Slide:  **  Repeat the instructions for the third slide with a //second element// from the group. ** Fifth Slide  **  : Repeat the instructions for the third slide again and choose a //third element// to highlight. (continue until all the elements in your family have been covered.) **Next Slide:** Importance of the family to our society. What might it be like if these elements did not exist or we did not know about the nature of them? This slide is important in emphasizing to the viewer the importance of learning about this chemical family.
 * The Problem: **
 * Third Slide ** : Choose one //element// out of the group and give information regarding its //discovery, sources, compounds that it forms, and uses of the element or its compounds//. (This may take up more than one slide; feel free to use more if necessary)

**Last Slide** **:** List the names of the members of your group. **Creativity**: The presentation should be pleasing to the eye and should contain pictures, images, or objects where appropriate. Do not allow the presentation to contain only text. Use of color and/or design will make it more attractive, and increase its visual impact. Be careful though, because too many different colors and transitions will make the presentation cluttered and unattractive. The families that we will be recognizing for this project are 1. Alkali Metals 2. Alkaline Earth Metals 3. Tranisition Metals 4. Boron Family 5. Carbon Family 6. Nitrogen Family 7. Oxygen Family 8. Halogens 9. Noble Gases 10. Rare Earth Metals

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