“I am the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature’.Describe the properties of the element:.More Periodic Table Bingo Cards – a whole class set ready to print!ĭuring our chemistry unit, playing games is a fun way to become familiar with the elements and the vocabulary associated with the periodic table.Periodic Table – interactive link and pdf for students to use.Infographic for Transition Metals – minus the 7th period.Elements Blank Bingo Card – Free – download the pdf.Transition Metals Blank Bingo Card – Free – download the pdf.They have a lot of great chemistry videos posted for free on their site, be sure to check them out! You can read about how she used this lesson in her 3rd grade classroom as part of her Chemistry unit.īelow is a video about Sodium from Periodic Table Videos. This activity was featured on the following blog post: The Joy of Chemistry – A Unit in Photos a few years ago. If students have binders with a clear pocket on the outside front, I ask that they place it there for quick reference and access. I photocopy it double sided – one side stays blank while the other side is color coded. Periodic Table – (Updated 2016 pdf) I like to use this student version of the periodic table from Jefferson Lab for my 6th graders.Handout – ( pdf) students take notes for each family and use this is a reference for further lessons.Google Slides ( Public) – updated for 2016 with links to the YouTube videos to view an element in each family.The students really enjoy watching the video clips from Periodic Table Videos and the experiments performed by the Chemistry Department at the University of Nottingham.Īs a class, we found the location of each family, recorded the elements for each family, discussed their properties, color coded the periodic table, and discussed any patterns they noticed. This is a fun way to introduce the families of the periodic table and their properties. Periodic Table Battleship Handout 2018 Color – Click on the link to download and print the PDF in color.Periodic Table Battleship Handout 2018:– Click on the link to download and print the PDF.I have ‘privacy screens’ that we use during tests and quizzes that they can use to keep their papers hidden from their opponent. to keep track of their boat placement, hits, and misses. Using this handout, they can use two different colored highlighters, crayons, colored pencils, etc. Most of the Periodic Table Battleship games involve expo markers and file folders, but that is time consuming to set up and clean up. I wanted a simple handout for my students to use and that was easy to manage. Click on the links to for detailed lesson information. We are just learning about how the Periodic Table is arranged according to Families, how to determine Shells and Valence Electrons, and how to draw Bohr Diagrams and Lewis Structures.
We are having a tech-free day and thought between Transition Metal Bingo and Periodic Table Battleship, my students will really get to know how to find elements on the Periodic Table.