Atoms and Elements Workshop

On Monday, February 19th, AGSS hosted a workshop about Atoms and Elements at the Boys’ and Girls’ club at Southwood! At this workshop, which was designed by our Science Curriculum Head Cynthia Jia and hosted by our president Selena Akay, we went over the parts of an atom. Students were also  introduced to the periodic table, its significance, and how to navigate it. To practice, we did a quick activity on how to extract information about the elements using the periodic table terminology! 
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​We built upon the knowledge of atoms that they gained earlier by introducing the concept of molecules. Our activity for the day was creating atoms! First, they drew the atomic structure of the element of their choosing on a piece of paper, and then they modeled their drawing using pipe cleaners for electron shells, gummy bears for protons and neutrons, and marshmallows for the electrons. I’m positive that we’ll be keeping an ion these future scientists’ accomplishments!