Students look more deeply into the structure of the atom and play a game to better understand the relationship between protons, neutrons, electrons, and energy levels in atoms and their location in ...

The zigzag, staircase, line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals, on the right. Hydrogen is a non-metal, but it is often put in the middle.

Accompanying Lesson Plan: Lesson 3.2: Finding Volume—The Water Displacement Method The chart shows that atomic size and mass for the first 20 elements in the periodic table. The size of the atoms and ...