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Building Blocks of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science worksheet, students identify different parts of one element from the periodic table. Students also complete a chart by writing the appropriate characteristics for metals, metalloids, and nonmetals.
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Periodic Trends

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this periodic trends worksheet, students determine the trends of electronegativity in the periodic table. Students compare electronegativity and ionization energy. This worksheet has 6 problems to solve.
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Periodic Table Puns

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry activity, 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.
Lab Resource
Creative Chemistry

Melting Points of Elements in Period 3

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this elements worksheet, students use a data table to graph the elements and their melting points. Students have eight elements to graph.
Lab Resource
Creative Chemistry

Reactions of Group 1 Metals With Water

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this elements worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer comparing lithium, sodium, and potassium observations. Then, they determine how these elements react with water. Students complete three fill-in-the-blank questions.
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Elements

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this elements learning exercise, students write the electron configurations for given elements. Students describe ionization energy and electron affinity and the periodic trends for both. This learning exercise has 20 short answer...
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Element Word Search

For Students 6th - 9th
In this elements worksheet, learners are given forty elements from the periodic table to find in a word search either vertically, horizontally, backwards or diagonally.
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Transition Metals (III)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss transition metals, where they are located on the periodic table, some of the element in the group, and some characteristics of the group. They work in groups to conduct an experiment in which they mix transition metals...
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Properties of Matter (Biomaterial Through Nanotechnology)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate friction between different surfaces. In this physics lesson, students research biomaterials that can reduce friction. They calculate efficiency using a mathematical formula.
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Mr. Jones's Science Class

Periodic Table Project

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Don't be fooled by the title; this is not really a lesson on elements. It is a project on classification, using the periodic table as an example. For that reason, it could be used in any branch of science. As an example, a group may...
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How Can You Tell One Clear Gas From Another?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders perform experiments to determine the identity of an unknown gas sample. In this chemistry lesson, 5th graders fill balloons with air, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide. They use mass and reactivity to identify the gases.
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The Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to the Periodic Table of Elements. There are 18 words located in the puzzle.
Lesson Plan
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The Photoelectric Effect in Photocells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Illuminate your physics class with this examination of a photovoltaic cell. Teach the structure and operation of the device using a diagram. Then make a human-powered, larger-than-life sized model of a PV cell. Learners become electrons...
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Sorting Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Graph A goes with equation C, but table B. The short assessment task requires class members to match graphs with their corresponding tables, equations, and verbalized rules. Pupils then provide explanations on the process they used to...
Unit Plan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Molecules to the Max!—Educators Resource Guide

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
From molecules to nanotubes, an engaging unit explores the world of tiny science. Fifteen hands-on experiments and lessons engage young scientists as they learn chemistry. Discussions, worksheets, and data analysis reinforce the concepts...
Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Testing for Gases

For Students 6th - 11th
If most gases are invisible, how do we know so much about them? Pupils practice associating the name, formula, testing method, and outcome for four common gases using an interactive. Users build on the content of their first puzzles to...
Worksheet
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Element Names and Symbols

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students use an interactive website to study the names and symbols of elements. They give the names and symbols of 69 common elements.
Lesson Plan
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Isotopes of Pennies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate that isotopes of an element have different masses. They illustrate atomic mass and neutrons. The periodic table is examined in length. Display of a collection of atoms is surveyed.
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Properties of the Elements

For Students 10th - 12th
For this elements worksheet, students compare the properties of elements in the periodic table such as their atomic radii, valence electrons and ionization energy.
Lesson Plan
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Using several learning modalities to teach about the Periodic Table.

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify how to relate the position of an element in the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass. They identify how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, nonmetals, and halogens, and also,...
Lesson Plan
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Periodic Table

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students relate to the idea of periodicity & give example of other periodic events and identify and use the periodic table as a useful resource. They also identify the relationship of elements to certain groups & periods &...
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The Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 7th - 12th
In this elements worksheet, students fill in a periodic table with the element symbols, mass numbers, and proton numbers of the elements that are missing.
Lesson Plan
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Finding the Average People Mass for the Element Called "Humans"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate where a new element would be located on the periodic table. In this isotope lesson, students find the mass of a new element, people mass. This number will be entered onto the periodic table of elements as the mass of...
Lesson Plan
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Of Electron Bondage

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create models of ionic and covalent electronic bonds to demonstrate their understanding of these chemistry concepts. They explain how both ionic bonds and covalent bonds work so that younger students can understand.

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