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I created this odd one out chemistry activity to give my students practice determining how the placement of an element on the periodic table tells us about how an element will likely behave. For this activity, students were given three elements to locate on the periodic table. Based on these locations, they had to determine …

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I’m giving my chemistry students weekly element quizzes until they have the symbols and names of the first 36 elements memorized. I broke the first 36 elements down into three sets. Each week, my chemistry students have 12 elements and their symbols to memorize from the periodic table. When I told my husband of my …

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My chemistry students are taking weekly element quizzes until we have the symbols of the first 36 elements memorized. A couple of weeks ago, we played a few rounds of Element Bingo to give them practice remembering the symbols for each element. Students were given a blank Element Bingo card (free download at the bottom …

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Short and sweet post today to let you know about an awesome chemistry gossip activity I found for FREE on TpT.  I gave it to my physical science students as a “let’s get back in work mode since we haven’t seen each other for five days as a result of fall break” activity.  It only …

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There isn’t much to this chemical symbol foldable, but there’s something about it that just makes me so happy.  I wanted to come up with a quick reminder for my students about how to write a chemical symbol that identifies the specific isotope we are looking at. Here’s what our completed interactive notebook page ended …

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I created this Periodic Table War game to give my students more practice becoming familiar with the periodic table.  It’s based off of the card game, War, which is a common choice of card game to adapt for various math concepts.  You can play logarithm war, trig war, radian and degree war, linear war, or …

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