Lesson Plan: Electronic Configurations Chemistry • 10th Grade

This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use electron-shell notation to identify elements and describe the electronic configurations of atoms and ions.

Objectives

Students will be able to

link ideas of electron shells to electronic configuration,
describe the number and composition of electronic orbitals within the principle quantum numbers,
describe the relative energy levels and composition of the principal quantum numbers and orbitals,
use the rules governing the order in which electrons fill and are lost from orbitals.

Prerequisites

Students should already be familiar with

the structure of the atom and nuclide notation,
formation of ions,
simple electronic configurations and the concept of electron shells/levels.

Exclusions

Students will not cover

potential anomalies in the filling of orbitals for transition metals,
the shapes of d and f orbitals,
filling patterns beyond the fourth quantum number.