English National Curriculum - Science
Mission Objectives
Describe the plum pudding model of the atom
Describe how the initial evidence for the nuclear model was processed and how the model came to be accepted
Explain how Rutherford and Marsden’s experiment caused a rejection of the plum pudding model
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Words and meanings to learn
atomic model
a scientific theory that describes the structure of atoms
electron
a negatively charged subatomic particle that orbits the nucleus of an atom in energy levels or shell
orbitals
regions around the nucleus where electrons are likely to be found
alpha particles
positively charged particles made up of two protons and two neutrons, emitted by some radioactive materials
nucleus
the small, dense positive centre of an atom that contains protons and neutrons
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