Please join us the 2016-2017 Open House for PreK - 12th grades on Wednesday, August 17 from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Class schedules for grades 6th - 12th are now available to be picked up in the front office from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. There is a new Friday Dismissal time of 3:00 p.m. this year.
1 Electrons-Subatomic particle that has almost no weight and carries a negative charge; orbits in a shell about the nucleus of an atom. 2  Neutrons-Subatomic particle that has a weight of one atomic mass unit, carries no charge, and is found in the nucleus of an atom.
Figure 4 - Electron flow between atoms. The atom on the left has an equal number of electrons and protons, so it has a neutral charge. The atom in the middle, however, has lost an electron, so it now has a positive charge. It is capable of attracting a new electron from the atom on the right.