Bill Vonnahme

A fairy tale beginning transitions into an effective and fun activity on proteins. This lesson utilizes multiple learning modalities. Verbal, auditory, visual and kinesthetic input is integrated into the activity. This is a great activity that results in typically non-engaged students actually verbalizing the content to be learned. Once begun the activity proceeds automatically, freeing the teacher to monitor learning. Students are always engaged and motivated by the competition to produce

Start your class with reading and discussion of the most important atoms in living things. Progress to the mass, location and charge of the subatomic particles in an atom. Connect the periodic table to the activity and then transition to ions and isotopes in a seamless fashion. Finally, students can apply the newly acquired knowledge as they practice calculating the subatomic particles present in several atoms, ions and isotopes. Finally, mathematics is presented to differentiate between the