Element PowerPoint Project - (100 points)

The Problem: You have been asked by the American Chemical Society to design a PowerPoint
presentation local libraries can use. They have asked you to prepare the presentation about one of
the elements on the periodic table. It would be shown to local citizens (and will be shown to your
classmates) so it must be presented in such a way that the average reader would understand it. It
must contain the following information on the slide indicated:

An element will be selected by you during science class. Students may email the PowerPoint to the
teacher, bring it in on a flash drive, or save the PowerPoint to the student’s school (H:) drive.

Computer Discovery Requirements:

 Logical sequence to the presentation
 Project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea
 Each and every word on the slide can be seen and used correctly
 Punctuation and capitalization are used correctly
 Font used is easy to read and the size varies appropriately for headings and text
 Use of bold and indentations enhance readability
 The background and colors of each slide enhance the text
 Quality clipart…not blurry or oversized
 There is a consistent visual theme
 Clipart is related to the presentation
 Quality slides are created…not just writing on a slide with the clipart
 Amount of slides as instructed

Points To Consider:
Slides must be in the order listed.

You must have a title on each of your slides.

Do not include any words in your presentation that the average person would not understand. If
you feel the need to include a word most people don’t know, be sure to define it! If you are unsure,
define it anyway just to be safe.

Do not use any videos.

Pay attention to font size. Those watching your presentation from the back of the room should be
able to read all text on your slides. The information on your slides should be to the point and short
(bullets as opposed to complete sentences).

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. Also do not allow your
slides to look “busy” with too many graphics, too much color or designs. You should also have
transitions from one slide to the next.
Requirements:
 Minimum of 10 slides

 1st slide
o Must have the student’s name, class period, and the name of the element (5 points)
 2 slide
nd

o Element’s symbol, atomic number, and mass number (5 points)

 3rd slide
o Melting point and boiling point for the element (5 points)
Number of protons, neutrons, electrons (5 points)
State of matter at room temperature (solid, liquid, or gas) (5 points)
Classification: metal, nonmetal, metalloid (5 points)
 4 slide
th

o Bohr model of the element’s atomic structure: number of energy levels and how
many electrons per level (5 points)
o Lewis Electron Dot Diagram Model: must include the element’s symbol and the valence
electrons located in the correct location (5 points)
 5 slide
th

o Date of discovery (5 points)

Who discovered the element? (5 points)
 Name origin---from what language (5 points)
 6 slide
th

o Paragraph about the elements friends (tell about the bonding that this element likes to
make and what happens to its electrons) (5 points)
 7th slide
o What makes your element unique or special? List 5/7 important physical and/or
chemical properties of the element. Make sure you explain why some of the properties
you listed make your element unique. (10 points)
 8th slide
o Why is your element important? What would we be without if your element did not
exist? You must give the most common uses of the element. (10 points)
 9 Slide
th

o This slide must tell how someone could obtain a sample of your element. This would
include the location on earth where the element is found. If your element is found pure
in nature you must tell that as well. (10 points)
 10th slide
o The last slide must have the 3 resources the student used to gather the information:
name/page in the textbook, name/page of a library book, website addresses. (10 points)
 A printout of the PowerPoint --- handout with 6 slides per page in grayscale---to be given to
the teacher on the due date

Websites you may find helpful:

http://periodic.lanl.gov
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/name.html
http://www.webelements.com
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/pertable_j.htm
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/
Name:____________________________ Date:______________ Period:_______

Element:___________________________
PowerPoint Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet
Slides 2-3
My element belongs to the ___________________________ family.

Three Interesting things about my family are:

1.______________________________________________________________________

2.______________________________________________________________________

3.______________________________________________________________________

Classification (circle one): Nonmetal Metal Metalloid

State of Matter at room temperature (circle one): Solid Liquid Gas

Symbol Atomic Number Atomic Mass

______________ ______________ ______________

# of Protons # of Neutrons # of Electrons

______________ ______________ ______________

Melting Point Boiling Point Normal Phase

______________ ______________ ______________

Slide 4
Bohr Model Lewis Electron Dot Diagram

Slide 5
Discovered in ___________________________________________________________

Discovered by ___________________________________________________________

Origin of Name __________________________________________________________

Slide 6
Type of Bonding:

1. What type of bond do I normally form?

2. Explain what my electrons do when I form a chemical bond.

3. Give an example of a balance reaction that I am involved in for a common substance

Slide 7
What makes your element unique or special? List 5-7 important physical and/or chemical properties
of the element. Make sure you explain why some of the properties you listed make your element
unique.

Slide 8
Why is your element important? What would we be without if your element did not exist? You must
give the most common uses of the element.

Slide 9
This slide must tell how someone could obtain a sample of your element. This would include the
location on earth where the element is found. If your element is found pure in nature you must tell
that as well.

References: (Ask.com, Yahoo, Google, etc. are not references, they are search engines.)

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