periodic trends

text: ChemCards - An Open Source Card Game

// Thursday, July 27, 2023 • Thomas Manning

Chem Cards is a game that can familiarize students with chemistry; from historical events and figures to nomenclature and minerals.

Periodic Table Interactive Notebook

// Sunday, September 25, 2022 • Nora Walsh

After an introduction to atomic structure, the next unit in my interactive notebook is on the Periodic Table. We explore the vocabulary and patterns on the periodic table, and examine how electrons tie into those patterns.

The Periodic Table & Periodic Trends with Rachmad Tjachyadi

// Thursday, October 14, 2021 • Deanna Cullen

Learning about the periodic table and how the elements are arranged are both essential to success in chemistry. On October 7th, 2021, Rachmad Tjachyadi shared his unit covering the periodic table and periodic trends in this ChemBasics Talk.

Periodic Table Battleship

// Sunday, July 25, 2021 • Josh Kenney

A proficient understanding of the periodic table is indispensable for students studying chemistry. Chemical properties, bonding, and reactions are routinely explained using the trends and patterns of the periodic table.

The Magical Periodic Table and The Element Girls Series

// Tuesday, April 13, 2021 • Rajasree Swaminathan

I am a 7th grade teacher who has been teaching a semester of physics and a semester of chemistry at the Harker School in San Jose, CA for the last twenty years. Early on in my career, I made a few observations based on the reactions of my students when I introduced the periodic table of elements to them.

Key card for periodic table element cards

A Virtual Adaptation of a Periodic Table Card Sort and Lab

// Monday, December 28, 2020 • Chad Husting

“What are we doing to try to help kids achieve?”

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Computer Based Labs - eBook

// Wednesday, April 1, 2020 • Thomas Manning

*Thomas Manning and **Aurora Pérez Gramatges recently asked the publisher of their book, Computer Based Projects For a Chemistry Curriculum, to provide educators open access to the resource. Bentham Science has agreed and the eBook will be open access through June 30, 2020.

NGSS Periodicity Lesson

// Tuesday, December 10, 2019 • Kristen Drury

The periodic table that most of us use in our classrooms was originally developed by Dmitri Mendeleev, but thousands of alternate versions of the table have been devised over time. In this lesson, students are offered a variety of alternative versions of the periodic table.

Periodic Trends Guided-Inquiry Activity

// Monday, January 28, 2019 • Ann Baxley

Trends related to placement of elements on the periodic table are often taught using diagrams in a textbook. Students often memorize trends, but to get a true grasp of their meaning and what causes certain patterns is best understood when students create their own models and discuss the patterns with others.

Reviewing the Periodic Table Using Mystery Puzzles

// Sunday, October 14, 2018 • Gloria Gajewicz

Last year, I wanted to create a fun way to review Periodic Table concepts with my students instead of using the same review worksheet I had students complete in the past. I personally enjoy Escape the Classroom activities, but I could not find one that fit with my Chemistry class content.