Today is 29 October 2007 -- We model atomic bonding with "magnetic floatees!"

In class we used mini magnets mounted on foam floats to model how atoms self-arrange into a configuration where they all have minimum energy. To prepare for this activity, we used pennies in various arrangements to demonstrate packing and studied the High School Nanoscience Program Self Assembly website. You were shown how the self-arrangement occurs. Use the hyperlink Self Assembly to go to the site. Read and study it all, especially the section on the floating magnets. Answer the 4 study questions on that website. Then, write a lab report on how the magnet self-assembly demonstration relates to atomic bonding and self-assembly of molecules from atoms. Use the website as the main reference. You should check out other references on-line, in the library or in your text.