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Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: Surface Area and Volume
Whether you wrap it or fill it, you're using geometric concepts. Classmates use an interactive approach to learn how to find volume and surface area of cylinders and prisms in the second lesson in a five-part series. The online lesson...
Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: Platonic Solids
From polyhedrons to platonic solids, here is a lesson that will have your classes talking! As an introduction to platonic solids, scholars cut and fold nets to create the three-dimensional solids. They use an interactive component to...
Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: Euler's Theorem
How do you get a theorem named after you? Euler knows what it takes! The third lesson of five asks pupils to use an interactive activity to compare the faces, vertices, and edges of seven different three-dimensional solids. They use...
Annenberg Foundation
Geometry 3D Shapes: 3D Shapes
Explore vocabulary related to three-dimensional shapes. An instructional website describes the characteristics of different geometric solids. Learners can use an interactive component to view nets, faces, vertices, and edges of common...
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.
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.
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.
Other
American Elements: Periodic Table of Elements
An interactive periodic table of elements allows users to click on elements and discover the details of each one.
Other
The Wooden Periodic Table
A giant sized table made of wood houses a large collection of minerals from the periodic table. Click on any wooden tile to discover what the element looks like and details about its atomic structure and uses. The author even tells you...
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham: Periodic Table of Videos
A collection of videos exploring the elements of the Periodic Table, presented by professors, lecturers, scientists, technicians, and others at the University of Nottingham. Videos contain stories, personal experiences, fun facts,...
NASA
Nasa: Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question
Explore the periodic table like never before! This downloadable program module for students comes absolutely complete with teacher modules, student assessments, PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, historical text readings and more. Students...
Other
Chemical elements.com/scandium
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Phosphorus
Excellent source of information on phosphorus including its physical and chemical properties. Highly recommended.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Elements as Building Blocks
Review the purpose of the periodic table and how it is designed.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Gridlocks: Level 1
A collection of grid puzzles that cover topics in basic chemistry, including acids, salts, alkalis, chemistry lab equipment, the periodic table, states of matter, and more. These are excellent for topic review and reinforcement. The...
Other
Chemical elements.com: Silver
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Periodic Table of Elements
Kid's learn about the science of the Periodic Table of Elements. Groups and periods, atomic number, types of matter.
Other
Chemical elements.com: Samarium
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
Other
Chemical elements.com: Sodium
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Potassium
As the name of this site implies, this is a huge reference site for elemental information. Whether you are looking for properties or isotopes, this site probably has what you need. Images of structure and electron energy level can be...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Heading to Group Two
The second family in the periodic table is the alkaline earth metals found in the second column from the left. Meet the family and get to familiar with why this is the second most reactive group of elements.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Families Stick Together
Beyond columns and rows, the periodic table groups elements according to families. Identify the families present on the table with this overview.
American Chemical Society
It's Elemental:
This periodic table offers a brief description and an example when you pause the mouse pointer over the element icon. Click the linked periodic abbreviation for detailed information.
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Holmium
As the name of this site implies, this is a huge reference site for elemental information. Whether you are looking for properties or isotopes, this site probably has what you need. Images of structure and electron energy level can be...