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 plan to write my element quizzes, he offered to help create an Excel Spreadsheet that would automatically generate random element quizzes. Of course, I took him up on his offer to create an element quiz generator!
Here’s the finished product:
Change the version letter, and the spreadsheet will automatically generate a new quiz. Not happy with the new quiz version? Hit F9 to generate a different version.
This part of the spreadsheet controls the magic.
Type in the atomic numbers that you want to quiz students through. Choose a quiz number and version letter. The spreadsheet does the rest.
For my class, we are doing four quizzes.
- Quiz 1 – Elements 1-12
- Quiz 2 – Elements 13-24
- Quiz 3 – Elements 25-36
- Quiz 4 – Elements 1-36
The spreadsheet made it super easy to generate all of these quizzes (including FOUR versions of each) in a matter of minutes. I simply hit F9 until I got a quiz version I wanted, then I selected “Microsoft Print to PDF” as my printer.
Each PDF contains a quiz and the corresponding answer key!
Here’s what the finished element quiz looks like:
And, here’s the corresponding answer key.
Please check out my other chemistry resources for more free downloads.
Free Download of Element Quiz Generator and Element Quizzes
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First 36 Elements Study Guide (Editable Publisher File ZIP) (858 downloads )
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Element Quiz 1A (PDF) (664 downloads )
Element Quiz 1B (PDF) (700 downloads )
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Element Quiz 1D (PDF) (639 downloads )
Element Quiz 2A (PDF) (666 downloads )
Element Quiz 2B (PDF) (575 downloads )
Element Quiz 2C (PDF) (622 downloads )
Element Quiz 2D (PDF) (615 downloads )
Element Quiz 3A (PDF) (578 downloads )
Element Quiz 3B (PDF) (586 downloads )
Element Quiz 3C (PDF) (609 downloads )
Element Quiz 3D (PDF) (625 downloads )
Element Quiz 4A (PDF) (641 downloads )
Element Quiz 4B (PDF) (612 downloads )
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Lin W
Friday 13th of October 2017
Wow this is great and available even before I need it. Thank you for sharing yours and your husband's resources!!! So very appreciated!!! I see the excel template has other information so will you use it for other things in future like electron configurations, atomic mass etc?