School
of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery
RLO: Elements that make up the human body
Resources
| Title/link | Description |
|---|---|
| Atomic Bonding | Examining ionic, covalent and mixed bonding in atoms. |
| Structure of the Atom | An introduction to basic atomic structure. |
| Web Elements Periodic Table (Scholar edition) | An interactive periodic table, which displays detailed information, including images and video clips, about each element when you click on the element symbol. |
| Chemical Elements | Another interactive periodic table, with descriptions of element groups and diagrams of element electron shells. |
| Lewis dot structures of Covalent Compounds | This learning object examines the basic structure of atoms and the valence electrons (those in the outermost shell, which give an atom its chemical properties) with reference to the element's position in the Periodic Table. |
Glossary
- Atom: an electrically-neutral combination of electrons, protons and neutrons, the "smallest unit of an element to retain all the chemical properties of that element".
- Atomic Number: the number of protons in an atom.
- Atomic Mass: the number of protons plus the number of neutrons in an atom.
- Compound : a chemical substance formed from two or more elements.
- Electron: an almost weightless particle carrying a negative charge.
- Element: a substance that can't be reduced to a simpler substance by chemical means.
- Molecule: a coherent particle comprising two or more atoms, "the smallest particle of a pure chemical substance that still retains its chemical composition and properties".
- Neutron: a particle with no electrical charge with a mass nearly equal to a proton.
- Proton: a particle with a positive charge with a mass nearly equal to a neutron.
RLO Transcript (Rich Text Format, 17kb)