Students made a foldable/cut and paste for their notebooks.
I made "Scientist Sticks" so students could see the "real" scientist. (Images of Democritus, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr and Chadwick taped them to craft sticks.)
I walked around the room with them as we discussed the discoveries then clipped them to the board and summed up the information.
It open up a great discussion on how the technology of pictures had changed, and what they wore, hair etc.
We did a Rutherford simulation using marbles (alpha particles) and a hidden geometric shape (nucleus) hidden under a piece of cardboard (gold foil). Students had to make a hypothesis about what shape was hidden then identify what each part of the model simulated. I found an online version that students could watch at home.
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