PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay
This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Mastered the Periodic Table? Here Are Four More!
Read about the addition of four new elements to the periodic table. Includes video.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Periodic Table
Learn the basics of the Periodic Table including how the Periodic Table is organized and how to make sense of the information included in the table. Test your understanding with an interactive quiz at the end of the activity.
Other
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Periodic Table of Elements
An up-to-date periodic table of elements. Click on each element to see properties, history, sources, and uses. Very comprehensive.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Genius of Mendeleevs Periodic Table
Video explains why the periodic table devised by Dmitri Mendeleev has endured and how it has predicted the existence of elements. [4:25] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Other
Lenntech: Multilingual Periodic Table
An interactive periodic table of elements. Click an element to view a detailed description. Click the flags at the top to choose your language: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and German.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Families
Given descriptions or specific element groups, students will use a Periodic Table to relate properties of chemical families to position on the table.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Development of the Periodic Table [Pdf]
Article describing the history of the development of the periodic table of elements, particularly the work of Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Matter and Energy: Periodic Table
Learn all about the periodic table in this interactive tutorial.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Trends
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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Periodic Table
An interactive website where students learn about the basics of an atom, periodic tables organization, and the structure and properties of matter. Module includes an introduction and five lessons that are followed by a quiz and an...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Periodic Table
A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Arrangement of Elements: The Periodic Table
In this tutorial, students will investigate the arrangement of the Periodic Table by watching videos, completing interactive activities, and quizzes.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: The Periodic Table
This is a teacher's companion guide with lesson plans for the periodic table. It includes learning objectives, lecture notes, links to related sites, answers to frequently asked questions, and a glossary of related terms.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Ionization Energy
This WebElements site allows you to create a periodic table that shows the relative ionziation energies of all elements. Great visuals!!
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Electronegativity
Chart of Pauling electronegativity values versus atomic number. Colorful, pictorial explanation of this periodic trend.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Periodic Table App
In this activity, explore the periodicity of the periodic table with the Periodic Table App.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Periodicity of the Periodic Table
Different properties of the elements of the periodic table will be plotted and from this, a system of organization for the elements will be developed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Periodicity
This Study Card stack will allow students to review the development of the periodic table and the arrangement of elements with similar properties as groups within the periodic table.
Google
Google for Education: Example: Patterns in the Periodic Table
A lesson plan where students examine the trends in the periodic table.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Periodic Table of Elements
This page displays the Periodic Table of Elements and allows you to click each individual element for a page that displays in-depth information about that particular element. There are also links to many different games and learning...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Periodic Table of the Elements
This site provides an interactive periodic table of the elements. Select an element for a general description, images, audio files, and movies.