TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Periodic Table
Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification game. They also learn that...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: History of the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the history of the periodic table, and explain how the periodic table was originally organized, compared to the arrangement of the modern periodic...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: The Periodic Table
This learning module allows students to use the organization of the periodic table to understand the element and their properties. By the end of the activity, students will be able to locate metals, nonmetals, and metalloids and the...
Google
Google for Education: Patterns in the Periodic Table
Students study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Periodic Table
Learn the basics of the Periodic Table including how the Periodic Table is organized and how to make sense of the information included in the table. Test your understanding with an interactive quiz at the end of the activity.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Periodic Table
An interactive website where students learn about the basics of an atom, periodic tables organization, and the structure and properties of matter. Module includes an introduction and five lessons that are followed by a quiz and an...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atomic Theory and Structure: The Periodic Table
A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Caesium
A very helpful site with a great deal of information on caesium and its properties. Very helpful. Includes an audio track of a description of this element, as well as illustrative pictures.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Matter and Energy: Periodic Table
Learn all about the periodic table in this interactive tutorial.
Other
Periodic Table of Elements
This interactive periodic table provides information about each of the elements. This is a very comprehensive site.
Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Development of the Periodic Table [Pdf]
Article describing the history of the development of the periodic table of elements, particularly the work of Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Elements
Engaging and very informative article that explains what elements are, some of their history, how they are represented, the categories of elements, the periodic table, and how they are structured and classified.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Periodic Table Questions
Practice questions pertaining to Periodic Table of elements.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Periodic Table Model
Students will use "element" cards to organize into a periodic table, using the symbols on the card.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Periodic Table
An interactive Periodic Table of the Elements that displays specific properties of each element
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Periodic Table of Elements
This page displays the Periodic Table of Elements and allows you to click each individual element for a page that displays in-depth information about that particular element. There are also links to many different games and learning...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Periodic Table of the Elements
This site has a periodic table on it. When you click on each element, it brings up information about it. Site is organized, detailed, and helpful for learning.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: The Periodic Table of Data
An interactive Periodic Table of Elements which also serves as a visual database of each element's physical and thermochemical properties. Online activities include virtual graphing, tables of data, energy level diagrams, games, and more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Periodic Trend Game: Learning to Predict Elements Using Periodic Trends
An activity to introduce the periodic table and the trends. Students will understand the organization of the periodic table with this game.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 4: The Periodic Table and Bonding
Six middle school chemistry lessons about the periodic table and bonding complete with handouts and animations.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Periodic Table
Students explore the periodic table and learn the basic information given for elements: the name, symbol, atomic number, and atomic mass for each element.