Activities
- Find just
about any type of periodic table you want in pdf form to print for your
students at TheScience
Geek's
site.
- Have students
do the "Periodic Table" Magic
Square. An check out
"Finding the Moment of Inertia
for the Magic Square"
 to
delve into the theory of magic
squares.
- Try these
Metal and Nonmetal Wordsearches.
- Do the "Getting
to Know the Periodic Table" Worksheet.
- Have students
make an "Element
Brochure."
- Use the
periodic table to make "Element
Windsocks."
- Do this
"Periodic Table Basics" Worksheet
 .
- Use this
template to make "Periodic Table Cards"
of the common elements.
- Have students
do this "Periodic Table" Crossword Puzzle .
- 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.)
- Play Tom
Lehrer's "The
Elements"
song or show this Flash
animation of the song by Mike Stanfill.
- 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.
- 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.
- Do this
"Elements"
crossword puzzle with answers.
- Or
have students do this "Elements and the Periodic Table" crossword
puzzle.
- Try this
"Periodic Tables Online"
activity.
- "The
Periodic Table of Elements" is Teacher's
Domain (you must sign
up for free) activity that includes an essay and scavenger hunt.
- Make
learning the element symbols
fun with "An
Elemental Tale: The Gold Dust Kid"
worksheet.
- Or try these
"Element
Riddles."
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- "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 the 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, since the game is no longer online, 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."
- In Mike
Barondeau's "Periodic Chart
Spreadsheet" activity,
student's
manipulate this spreadsheet to
answer questions about the elements.
- Show this PowerPoint
"Teacher's
Guide to: Chemistry's Periodic Table"
that has been converted
to a YouTube video.
- Have students watch the YouTube video "These
Are the Elements" by David Newman. Lyrics and an mp3 download
of the song are available by clicking "Show more" under the video.
 During March Madness have
students try Flinn Scientific's
"It's Elementary-March Madness" activity.
Labs
- Test seven
elements of your choice to determine if they are "Metals, Nonmetals, or
Metaloids" in this Lab.
- Have students
cut out the element cards and discover the 9 unknown elements in "The
Mendeleev Lab of 1869."
- Discover
"Trends in the Periodic Table" with this Lab.
- Or
try this "Periodic Trends" lab.
- 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
 .
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