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Periodic Table & Its Trends-Day 1
Students are introduced to the periodic table. They find the common trends among the electron configurations and the names of certain groups of the table. Students explore the atomic mass, atomic number, mass number, mass and charge...
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Patterns of the Periodic Table
In this elements worksheet, students determine the pattern that is being illustrated by the diagrams of the periodic table. Students identify 6 different patterns.
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Periodic Table of Elements
In this chemistry worksheet, students examine the elements and focus on things like the mass and order for the location to match with the type of elements.
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Size of Atoms - Trends
This compendious collection of slides leaves no questions when it comes to the concept of atomic size. Thorough and easy-to-read graphs, tables, and graphics explain atomic radii, the shielding effect, the octet rule, isoelectric...
Concord Consortium
Atom and Ion Builder
Explore and control the building blocks of atoms! Physical science superstars add and remove subatomic particles to create atoms and ions with an easy-to-use interactive. An alternate activity includes an assignment that focuses on the...
Virginia Department of Education
Atomic Structure: Elements
It's all relevant, really. Individuals use the scientific method to learn more about elements, atoms, and their placement on the periodic table. They conduct experiments using materials common in nature to explore how elements affect our...
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Module 5 Revision Guide - Chemistry
If you use this as an outline for your chemistry lecture on metals, your young chemists will absorb a well-rounded overview. This is not a worksheet per se, but a useful summary of the behavior of metals. Save yourself some planning and...
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Periodic Table Lesson Plan
Pupils describe how elements are arranged on the periodic table. They compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids based on their properties and on their locations in the periodic table. Students describe the differences between a period...
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Periodic Table
In this periodic table worksheet, students determine why the periodic table is organized the way it is and compare and contrast the characteristics of the different grouping of elements. This worksheet has 22 short answer and 36 fill in...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PERIODIC TABLE
Students identify the scientist who first wrote the Periodic Table, identify the scientist who amended the Table, state (or write) specific data relating to the history of the Periodic Table, identify at least five elements, and two...
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??Discovering Patterns and Trends of the Periodic Table using PDAs??
In this lesson, 10th graders research the elements within a particular period of the periodic table of elements. Students gather data from PDA for each element and join other individuals to decpher the patterns in the peridoc table.
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The Periodic Table of the Elements
Students examine different elements and explore how their properties play a role in technology. In this periodic table instructional activity students view a few short videos, answer questions then research the Internet to find...
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Periodic Table
Students identify in what groups and periods element is, state how many valance electrons element has, list basic properties of groups on periodic table, fill electrons in correct energy level/groups, and answer chapter questions.
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Elements Commercials
Student teams use a digital camcorder and iMovie to create a commercial about an element. They also use the Internet and their textbook to gather the following information about their element: the name, the symbol, the atomic number, the...
Virginia Department of Education
Isotopes
Lead your class through the amazing world of isotopes as they investigate the various properties they contain and further understand their respective location on the periodic table. They explore half-lives and radioactivity as each...
Virginia Department of Education
The Modern Model of Atomic Structure
The difference between atomic mass and atomic number can be confusing for some young chemists. Help your class better understand the concepts by allowing them to sketch an atom on paper and then discuss their experience. Upon completion...
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Periodic Table
In this periodic table activity, learners characterize elements according to their group in the periodic table. This activity has 26 matching and 13 multiple choice questions.
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Periodic Table
In this elements worksheet, students review the characteristics of elements and the periodic table. This worksheet has 2 different versions, one with 20 multiple choice questions and answers and the other has 17 multiple choice questions...
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Amazing Carbon
Explore carbon and bonding with this worksheet. First, class members read a short excerpt about carbon and its characteristics. In response to the reading, they draw an electron dot diagram of carbon as well as diagrams of compounds...
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Periodic Table Puns
In this chemistry worksheet, students use their imagination and the elements in the Periodic Table to solve each of the puns listed on the sheet. Then they create some of their own and write them on the back.
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Periodic Table Puns 2
For this chemistry worksheet, students use their imagination and the elements in the Periodic Table to solve each pun listed on the sheet. There are 24 to complete.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Vanadium
Introduce your chemistry scholars to the periodic table's Goddess of Beauty! Through an interactive that highlights the transition metal vanadium, learners discover the colors produced in solution as vanadium changes oxidation state....
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Molecules to the Max!—Teacher's Discovery Guide
Molecules to the Max! refers to a movie released in 2009 about the world of atoms and molecules. A helpful discovery guide provides five posters on science topics typically covered at the middle school level. It also explains the...
Pingry School
Determination of the Specific Heat of an Element
Many periodic tables mention specific heat, but how do scientists determine those numbers? Scholars attempt to find the specific heat of a metallic element by using a calorimeter. Three experimental trials ensure accuracy, and analysis...