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=__The Task:__ =

Your task is to choose one of the known elements from the Periodic Table and use the Garrett Middle School Periodic Table pathfinder at http://tuchtman.googlepages.com/periodictablepathfinder to search many different resources to find information on your element. No element may be chosen more than twice. If you find your element appearing twice on the left hand side of this page then you will need to make another choice of elements.

Once you have decided which element to use, you must then design a wikipedia page based upon your chosen element of the Periodic Table. A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or edit and change content of a topic very quickly and easily. It is also a way to use collaboration in defining the topics. Each element will chosen will then be added to the GKB Periodic Table Wikipedia.

** First: ** Your wiki page should include information from all five areas listed below (these inclusions are an absolute minimum to your page)

__Area 1: Essential data__ Element name, symbol, atomic number and mass, period and group number, and standard state.

__Area 2: History__ The discovery (include who and when), how it was named, meaning of the name, importance through history.

__Area 3: Physical properties__ Boiling and melting points, density, mineralogical hardness, atomic radius, crystal structure, electron configuration, and number of protons, electrons, and neutrons.

__Area 4: Element uses__ Biological role and health hazards, abundance of element in universe (earth and sun), environmental hazards or effects.

__Area 5: Other information__ Important compounds element forms, how much can you buy for $100.00, and list all isotopes.

** Second: ** Your wiki page must include one of the following summary items (going further).

__Item 1:__ Make a comic strip involving some of the information from Areas 1-5 above. The funnier it is the better. Remember all of you like funny comics. Use this link for a free trial to the software [|Comic Life 1.3] or use the software available on the classroom mobile computer labs.

__Item 2:__ Make a poem (any kind you learned about in writing class) involving some of the information from Areas 1-5 above.

__Item 3:__ Write a song (any kind: pop, rock, country, and even rap) invovling some of the information from Areas 1-5 above. See this example: [|"The Elements"]. Use the Garage Band software available on the classroom mobile computer labs.


 * Third: ** Presentations in class.