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The document provides instructions for students to create a presentation or advertisement to sell their assigned chemical element to classmates, including conducting research on the element's properties and history, developing an original marketing campaign with a company name and slogan, and building an atomic model to accompany the presentation. Students will work individually or in small groups, spend several days researching in the library and computer lab, and present their projects to the class for a grade based on inclusion of required elements and meeting deadlines.

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The document provides instructions for students to create a presentation or advertisement to sell their assigned chemical element to classmates, including conducting research on the element's properties and history, developing an original marketing campaign with a company name and slogan, and building an atomic model to accompany the presentation. Students will work individually or in small groups, spend several days researching in the library and computer lab, and present their projects to the class for a grade based on inclusion of required elements and meeting deadlines.

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Selling Your Element

Selling Your Element


Purpose:
• You are an “elements broker”.
• You have a quantity of your element to sell to your
classmates.
• Why should they buy it?
• Use your element research to create a power
point presentation or
• infomercial or video or rap
• that you have filmed for
• your element.
• Be prepared to present it
• to the class.
• Contents: Your advertising piece could include the
following:
• 1. From your element research (Something old)
• __Chemical Symbol, Atomic Mass, Atomic Number, etc.
• __When or who discovered it?
• __Where on earth it is found (Map of the world, US, Etc.)
• __How do humans use it?
• __How it is mined or produced?
• __What countries produce it and what countries use it?
• __What other elements does it usually combine with?
• __Is it radioactive?
• __What is the meaning of its name?
• __What family does it belong to? Why are the elements
in the same family?
• 2. New research (something-new)
• __Unusual or special properties
• __Its affect on humans and the environment
•
• 3. Imagineering (Something created entirely by you)
• __Company name
• __Logo for your company
• __Phone number (make it clever and/or related to your element)
• __Slogan or jingle for your atom
• __A legal warning about uses on your element (like the surgeon
generals warning on cigarettes)

• Penalties for -2 or more points for sloppy/ messy work or blank


spaces
How will we do this?
• Day 1: This will be a group project. Select partner and
brainstorm which element appeals to you.
• Day 2: Head to media center for research. Librarian will
give presentation on various resources available:
computer and book
• Day 3: continue library research
• Day 4; Conclude research
• Day 5: We will have 3 to 4 days in the computer lab. Day
1 will be to outline your presentation. Presentations may
be in the form of power point, videos, raps or other form of
multi-media.
• Day 6,7,8: Computer lab to refine and hone presentations.
• Day 9,10: Presentation to the class
• Power Point requirements:
– Must contain at least 8 slides including the
title slide.
– Must still include imagineering information
– Learn to upload photos of creators of project
to the power point
– Videos may be included
• Modeling:
• __Create a model of what one atom of
your element would look like to go along
with your written presentation. Refer to
examples presented in class for
presentation ideas.
• Bibliography: You must use and cite at
least 3 sources.
• Groups-You may work with up to two
other persons on this project. All must be
working on it or the group will lose points (-
1 point per warning). Your partners must
be in your class.
• Total points for whole brochure=30
• Total points for model = 20

• Due Date:
• Doing an infomercial, rap, or video?
– Please provide a script or storyboard.

– Remember: good visuals are always more


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• Reference sites:
• Chemicool.com
• Webelements.com
• Education.jlab.org
• http://periodic.lanl.gov

• Did you find a great site? Email me so it can be


shared with the class.

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