"The Atom Hotel" is a short, single-page reading assignment which relates the structure of a hotel, in terms of rooms, floors, and beds, to the arrangment of electrons in energy levels, sublevels, and orbitals within an atom. The reading assignment, in big, bold print, is simple to understand and sets the stage to present and discuss the abstract concepts associated with electron arrangement. In addition to the reading assignment, a sheet of suggestions for the teacher to expand the discussion