Find out about the characteristics, properties, and uses of calcium while learning where it is found and who discovered it.

Learn what quicklime is, how it can burn one's skin, how it is made, its chemical properties, and how it is used in industry and for other things.

Students observe and perform experiments with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur ,and phosphorus. The discover trends down groups, across periods, and having to do with the pH of metal oxides vs. nonmetal oxides.