Activities
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Find just
about any type of periodic table you want in pdf form to print for your
students at TheScience
Geek's site.
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Have students
do the "Periodic Table" Magic
Square.
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Try these
Metal and Nonmetal Wordsearches.
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Do the "Getting
to Know the Periodic Table" Worksheet.
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Have students
make an "Element
Brochure."
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Use the
periodic table to make "Element
Windsocks."
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Do this
"Periodic Table Basics" Worksheet
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Use this
template to make "Periodic Table Cards"
of the common elements.
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Have students
do this "Periodic Table" Crossword Puzzle .
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Play "Elements
Bingo" by randomly selecting elements from a paper copy
of the periodic table, randomly selecting an element and calling out the
name of the element while crossing it off the periodic table. Students
mark the symbol of that element on their bingo cards .
(This file has 36 prefilled cards.)
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Play Tom
Lehrer's "The
Elements"
song or show this
Flash animation of the song by Mike Stanfill.
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Try this Discovery School "Science
Hits" activity where students will listen to a recording of “The Elements”
by Tom Lehrer (1960) and write their own song for recalling scientific
information.
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Have students
do this "The
Manufacture of the Periodic Table" WebQuest from Mrs.
Leake.
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Abigail
Freiberger provided this "Martian Periodic Table"
activity using this 
table.
- "Arsenic
and Old Lace: The Chemistry Connection" is a WebQuest that uses
the old movie and has different students in a group act as chemist,
doctor,
historian, and reporter to produce a video for the class. An
evaluation
rubric is included.
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Do this "Elements"
crossword puzzle with answers.
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Try this "Periodic Tables Online"
activity.
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"The
Periodic Table of Elements" is Teacher's Domain (you must sign
up for free) activity that includes an essay and scavenger hunt.
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Make learning the element symbols
fun with "An
Elemental Tale: The Gold Dust Kid" worksheet.
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Or try these "Element
Riddles."
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In "Element Clues"
students place "known" element cards (included) in the order of the periodic
table and then figure out the identity of the "unknown" element cards by
their properties.
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Show The
World of Chemistry video, "A State of Matter," and have students
answer the questions on this "World of Chemistry: The Periodic Table"
worksheet.
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Have students play Mrs.
J's "What Element Am I?"
game. She includes instructions and masters for cards and scoring
sheet.
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In Mrs.
J's "Operation: Periodic Table"
students are given 24 mystery elements to arrange according the their physical
and chemical properties. The mystery element cards are included.
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"The
Universal Periodic Table " includes a teacher demonstration and a middle
school student activity that involves helping alien scientists design a
periodic table for their elements. The student activity sheet, blank
periodic table, and answers are provided.
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"Operation Periodic Table"
from Mrs.
J has students use chemical data to arrange elements in a periodic
table.
- "Elliot's
Elements Webquest" includes resources, evaluation rubrics,
and teacher notes.
- Try M. Horton's "Element Hunt Project"
where students collect as many pure
elements as they can aruond the home and create a poster with them.
 In th online game "Castle
Mendeleev" students explore the 18-room castle where each
room in entirely made of one of the elements in the first three rows of
the periodic table. Colleen Bennett of the NSTA Listserve
supplied these teacher notes with the answers and, if your students don't have
access to computers, I compiled this file of the game and this worksheet with a crossword puzzle.- This "Elements
Database" has links to information about all the elements as
well as a hangman game for the elements. Or try this "Periodic
Table Quiz."
Labs
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Test seven
elements of your choice to determine if they are "Metals, Nonmetals, or
Metaloids" in this Lab.
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Have students
cut out the element cards and discover the 9 unknown elements in "The
Mendeleev Lab of 1869."
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Discover
"Trends in the Periodic Table" with this Lab.
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Do "Density
As a Periodic Trend" Lab.
- Similar
to the "Martian Periodic Table" activity, "The Alien Periodic Table
Challenge," is a bit more creative. I
have included a periodic table chart and these are the answers supplied by
someone from "WIKI Answers" . After the lab, follow-up
with this "Alien Periodic Table Analysis" using this PowerPoint
 .
- Another
version of the "Alien Periodic
Table" has you cut out cards with alien images on them.
They are then arranged by the images on the cards.
Tracie Schroeder of the NSTA Listserve
suggested to " Copy the cards onto colored paper and
laminate them for the next year. You also need to remove two
of the aliens. To keep it simple, remove the same two from
each group's cards."
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