Engage your students while teaching them to use the period table with this collection of 12 free periodic table activities for your science class. In addition to teaching math classes, I have also taught physical science and chemistry at the high school level. The majority of these activities were designed by me to introduce my …
Periodic Table
I created this How the Periodic Table Really Looks Activity a few years ago when I was teaching chemistry. I wanted my chemistry students to understand that our modern day periodic table is structured the way it is because we want it to print nicely and be easily readable. To help illustrate what the periodic …
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 …
I created this periodic table poster several years ago. I used it both when I taught physical science and chemistry. Here’s what it looked like in my classroom: You might also be interested in my How to Read the Periodic Table foldable I created for my students’ interactive notebooks. Free Download of How to Read …
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 …
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 …
Just a quick post today to share a How Many Elements Can You Name Quiz I recently wrote for my chemistry class. It’s a quiz to see how many of the elements they already know before we delve into our study of the periodic table. I don’t expect my students to be able to name …
Earlier this week, one of the science teachers I follow on Twitter retweeted an activity posted by AACT. The activity was called The Periodic Table of Mistakes. At first glance, it looks like a regular periodic table, but there are actually 25 mistakes hidden within the table. I right clicked on the image and selected …
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 …
I recently assigned my physical science students a “Periodic Table License Plate Project.” This is not an original idea. I found it posted online here. Of course, I had to retype the instructions myself. As soon as I gave my students the instructions to the project, they began eagerly searching their periodic tables to see …
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 …
Since my physical science students are working through their first chemistry unit, I created a foldable to summarize how to read the periodic table. The inside of the foldable contains a periodic table I found online. When I went to look for a periodic table online, I was really frustrated that I couldn’t find exactly …
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 …
This year, I’m teaching two courses for the first time. These courses are physical science and math concepts, a class for 9th graders who are not yet ready for Algebra 1. These new-to-me classes are stretching me and my teaching in a very cool way. I’m being exposed to new teaching techniques, and I’m able …
I was really inspired by this Periodic Table of the Elements Project I saw in a classroom while attending Ed Camp Tulsa. Periodic Table of the Elements Project Each student was assigned a different element to research. Their research was summarized on a small rectangle of paper, and the pieces of paper were joined to …