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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Families

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions or specific element groups, students will use a Periodic Table to relate properties of chemical families to position on the table.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Trends

For Students 9th - 10th
Given descriptions, scenarios, or groups/series of elements, students will use the Periodic Table to relate the size of the atomic radii, electronegativity, and ionization energy of elements to their position on the chart. Students will...
Website
Other

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
An up-to-date periodic table of elements. Click on each element to see properties, history, sources, and uses. Very comprehensive.
Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table of elements allows students to click on each element, and read essential information about that element. Chemical elements are also listed alphabetically for quick reference.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Periodic Table

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification game. They also learn that...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: The Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module allows students to use the organization of the periodic table to understand the element and their properties. By the end of the activity, students will be able to locate metals, nonmetals, and metalloids and the...
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Google

Google for Education: Patterns in the Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.
Handout
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Caesium

For Students 9th - 10th
A very helpful site with a great deal of information on caesium and its properties. Very helpful. Includes an audio track of a description of this element, as well as illustrative pictures.
Handout
Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: The Periodic Table Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the answers to several commonly asked questions about the periodic table. Find out why the first elements on the table are unusual and identify who Lothar Meyer is.
Website
Other

Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table provides information about each of the elements. This is a very comprehensive site.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Periodic Table Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use "element" cards to organize into a periodic table, using the symbols on the card.
Handout
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a periodic table on it. When you click on each element, it brings up information about it. Site is organized, detailed, and helpful for learning.
Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table and Energy Level Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners interpret the information given in the periodic table to describe the arrangement of electrons on the energy levels around an atom.
eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Atoms and the Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a list of related topics (in hyperlink format) on the atom and the Periodic Table of elements. Topics from light, particles, and waves to the Bohr model, quantum...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trends in the Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate specific properties that can be predicted by an element's position on the periodic table. Additionally, they will look at the formation of ions,...
Handout
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Rhodium

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebElements Periodic Table site offers an excellent summary of data on rhodium, its description and properties.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Periodic Table

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short quiz on the periodic table of elements and how it is organized.
Handout
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: The Visual Elements Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore the visual elements periodic table. The interactive resource allows students to click on an element to find out about its origin, description, when it was discovered, and a visual animation of the element.
Handout
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Plutonium

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebElements site provides a great deal of elemental information. There are audio files demonstrating the correct pronunciation of the element name, pictures showing the electron shells, and information on isotopes, properties and more.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Elements and Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
In this fun and engaging online lesson, students differentiate between elements and compounds on the most basic level while having fun "encoding" the Periodic Table.
Handout
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Periodic Table/helium

For Students 9th - 10th
A great source of information on helium. Exceptionally thorough and well written.
Website
Other

American Elements: Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive periodic table of elements allows users to click on elements and discover the details of each one.
Handout
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: The Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
Click an element on the Periodic Table of Elements to learn more information such as the history and uses, origin of the name, isotope data, and more essential facts!