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.
The protons and the neutrons make up the center of the atom called the nucleus and the electrons fly around above the nucleus in a small cloud. The electrons carry a negative charge and the protons carry a positive charge. In a normal (neutral) atom the number of protons and the number of electrons are equal. Often, but not always, the number of neutrons is the same, too.