My Atomic Model

This is my atomic model. I used the “Tinkercad”  website to create it. I think that it mostly resembles Democritus’s idea of an atom because it is a small little white dot and Democritus’s idea of atoms was small one colored shapes. Democritus discovered the atom and I think that since my atom looks mostly like his, it’s probably correct. When I was creating it though, I wasn’t sure how I felt about my design. I wasn’t sure because I didn’t think it had enough detail and everyone else’s was very detailed and had all of them tons and tons of different shapes and colors and I thought that mine was just boring. But then when we watched the video, I felt confident in my design because I wasn’t the only person who made a plain white little dot! When Dan told everyone to raise their hand if their atom looked like Democritus’s idea, a lot of people raised their hand! My atom does not look exactly like a real one but now I understand that there are different shapes than a ball. I hope that one day I look back at my design and think: “That’s a pretty neat dot.” After studying atoms in science I learned that the middle of an atom, there is a place called the nucleus. Inside the nucleus there is something called a proton. The number of protons there are determines the type of atom. Protons are positively charged. Also in the nucleus there is something called a neutron. A neutron doesn’t really do anything but carries mass. It is also positively charged like a proton.  Now let’s zoom out to around the atom. Electrons are negative charged parts of that atom that circle around it. The electron is actually one tenth the size of the other parts of an atom.