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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Families Stick Together

For Students 5th - 8th
Beyond columns and rows, the periodic table groups elements according to families. Identify the families present on the table with this overview.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: The Noble Gases

For Students 5th - 8th
Get the skinny on the noble gases on the periodic table. Find out why this family is happy, how well they bond, and exactly who is a part of this happy family.
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Alkali Metals to the Left

For Students 5th - 8th
To the left. To the left. The elements in the left column of the period table are alkali metals with the exception of hydrogen. This is a brief overview of the alkali metals, what their family is all about and how well they bond or do...
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Chem4 Kids: Heading to Group Two

For Students 5th - 8th
The second family in the periodic table is the alkaline earth metals found in the second column from the left. Meet the family and get to familiar with why this is the second most reactive group of elements.