This activity allows students to gain an understanding of the relationship between the mass and relative abundance of an isotope and its effect on the average atomic mass of the element. Students will be given a random sample of the fictitious element "M&Mium" that contains at least three different "isotopes" of M&Mium and will design and carry out a procedure to determine the average "atomic" mass of the element M&Mium.

Concepts

isotopes, mass

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Additional Tags

relative abundance, investigating isotopes: using m&m's as a model for calculating atomic mass, serc, isotope

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice