Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Element Matching Game
The computer will give you a list of chemical symbols and a list of chemical names. Choose the chemical name that each chemical symbol represents. Press the 'Check my answers!' button after you have made your choices.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Element Flash Cards
Quiz yourself over the table of elements! The computer will give you an element and, depending on the selections you make below, you will have to supply the element's chemical name, chemical symbol or atomic number. Enter your answer...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: Chemical Elements Quiz
A challenge for students to try to recall the symbols for the first one hundred ten elements in the periodic table.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Periodic Table and the Elements
Students can use this resource to interact with the periodic table. Information is available for each element. This is a good source of information for younger students.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Elements & Compounds
A video and a short quiz on elements, how they combine through chemical reactions to make compounds, and how to write the chemical formulas for water and salt.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Copper
This page gives useful numerical and qualitative information about copper, chemical symbol Cu. Includes videos of certain reactions, electronic configuration, and information about the isolation of copper metal.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Silver
This page gives useful numerical and qualitative information about silver, chemical symbol Ag. Includes videos of certain reactions, electronic configuration, and information about the isolation of silver metal.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Gold
This page gives useful numerical and quantitative information about gold, chemical symbol Au. Includes videos of certain reactions, electronic configuration, and information about the isolation of gold metal.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Symbol to Number
This StudyCards stack enables students to practice associating an element's symbol to its chemical number.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characteristics of Elements: Lesson 3
This lesson will present the basic properties and characteristics of elements. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Characteristics of Elements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characteristics of Elements: Lesson 2
This lesson will present the basic properties and characteristics of elements. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Characteristics of Elements."
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Identifying the Element
Can you apply your knowledge of the elements to real-world uses? Read these fifty clues about chemical elements, and identify the correct element by name and symbol.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Symbols and Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a one page flipchart reviewing chemical symbols and elements.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Classification of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will define a mixture and understand why mixtures are different than pure substances. They will classify mixtures as homogeneous or...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Antimony: Atsdr Fact Sheet
This resource describes the chemical element antimony (chemical symbol Sb) and gives detailed information about its effects on human health and the environment.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Arsenic in Ground Water in the United States
This page discusses the presence of arsenic (chemical symbol As) in ground water in the United States. Also provides many links to other sites about arsenic (especially in drinking water.)
Other
Environmental Yellow Pages: Elemental Einsteinium
The history, isotopes, and properties of the element Einsteinium are discussed on this site. Also listed is the atomic weight, atomic number, atomic symbol, and electron configuration.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Proton Don (Periodic Table Game)
Play by matching an element's name to its symbol or supply the missing name for an element when presented with its symbol. Includes a tutorial so that you can review the symbols for elements before you play.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Elements of Literacy
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will use the symbols of the chemical elements to form words. The students will improve their functional literacy and critical thinking skills. Students will also increase...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Thallium: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Poisonous thallium is element number 81 and its chemical symbol is Tl. [1:11]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Francium: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Francium is named after France and its chemical symbol is Fr. [3 min, 7 sec]
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Simbolos De Los Elementos [In Spanish]
Try to match the names of the different chemical elements and their symbols. You can check the results and how long it took you to match them.