School
of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery
RLO: Structure of the Atom
Resources
| Title/link | Description |
|---|---|
| BBC
GCSE Bitesize: Atomic Structure 1 BBC GCSE Bitesize: Atomic Structure 2 |
Tutorials and self-tests on atomic structure aimed at GCSE students, covering similar ground to this RLO. |
| 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. |
| Elements that make up the human body | Introducing the periodic table of elements, and identifying the major elements involved in the human body and their roles. |
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.