Grade 11 · Week 05 · U1
Essential question: How does periodic position help predict properties?
Element properties recur in patterns across the periodic table.
Build an initial model and explanation for: How does periodic position help predict properties?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: period; group; radius; ionization energy; electronegativity; valence.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: period; group; radius; ionization energy; electronegativity; valence
Periodic table and trusted property dataset.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Graph periodic trends and identify anomalies.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: How does periodic position help predict properties?
Periodic-trend data investigation.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Answer the essential question: How does periodic position help predict properties?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.