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During today's class, we explained the relationship between Dalton's atomic theory and the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite proportions, and the law of multiple proportions.

This is the same lesson outlined all last week.

This lesson is the same as outlined each day last week

In today's class, Andrew worked on an in-class homework assignment covering everything we've learned over the last few days, including avogadro's number, the mole, and electron configuration. Andrew was able to ask questions when he was confused and did very well answering the questions I had for him. We will finish the assignment tomorrow in class.

The lesson on factors which affect the rate of a chemical reaction have not changed since Tuesday of this week

Discuss and outline the process of nuclear fission as it occurs in unstable radioactive elements.
Use the whiteboard to demonstrate the fission of the uranium 235 nucleus into krypton and barium, along with the release of neutrons and a great deal of energy.
Sketch the chain reaction which will occur when the nucleus absorbs a slow moving neutron and causes fission to occur, and how that fission then spreads into chain reaction with the release of tremendous energy.

In today's class, Andrew learned all about the periodic table, including how it is organized, what trends it has and why, the people who helped make it into what it is today, and the different names each section of the periodic table holds. Andrew did very well with the new information and asked questions when he was confused about something.

Outline and discuss alpha and beta decay.
Show how to balance a nuclear decay equation if either alpha or beta decay is the method of stability'
List and discuss the transmutation table from uranium to lead

Lesson outline is the one from Tuesday.