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Lesson Plan
NASA

Exploration of a Problem: Making Sense of the Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When given too much data to simply memorize, it helps to sort it into manageable groups. The second lesson in the six-part series of Cosmic Chemistry challenges groups of pupils to take a large amount of data and figure out how to best...
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Activity
It's About Time

Organizing a Store

For Teachers 7th - 12th
When provided with multiple objects, how many ways can the class organize and display them based on predetermined factors? Assist class members with a handy activity—theoretically teaching them concepts to understand periodic...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Elements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch video, The Elements, research information about elements using both the Internet and CD-ROM program, and create atoms out of gumdrops and licorice.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research an assigned element using the library, an encyclopedia, the Internet and other appropriate resources in order to write a research paper, a project, and an oral presentation.
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Elements 2

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Did you hear about the chemist reading the book about helium? He couldn't put it down. Scholars match 12 chemical elements, including helium, to their symbols. Then they complete three Sudoku-style puzzles using these names and symbols...
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PPT
Science Geek

Periodic Trends

For Teachers 9th - 12th
If your pupils think Um is the element of confusion, this presentation on period trends can only help. It covers the patterns for atomic radii, ionization energy, and electronegativity across a period and down a group. 
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Lab Resource
Pingry School

Determination of the Specific Heat of an Element

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many periodic tables mention specific heat, but how do scientists determine those numbers? Scholars attempt to find the specific heat of a metallic element by using a calorimeter. Three experimental trials ensure accuracy, and analysis...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemical Elements and Compounds Crossword

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this elements instructional activity, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 25 clues given.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemical Elements: Student Story

For Students 8th - 10th
In this chemical elements: student story learning exercise, students complete the given story by filling in the blanks with the names of the elements in brackets.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemical Elements: Student Story2

For Students 8th - 9th
In this chemical elements: student story learning exercise, students complete the written story by filling in the blanks with the names of the elements in brackets.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemical Elements: Student Story 3

For Students 7th - 9th
In this chemical elements: student story 3 activity, students complete the written story by filling in the blanks with the names of the elements in brackets.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Elements

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this elements worksheet, students write in the symbol of the chemical element that matches its description. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank questions.
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Assessment
Curated OER

2001 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Part I

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Sixty multiple-choice questions test on a variety of first year chemistry subjects. In order to succeed, exam takers must be competent with properties of elements, stoichiometry problems, gas laws, bond dissociation, and types of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Periodic Pencil Classification-Understanding Chemistry's Cornerstone

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students study the periodic table and the elements.  In this chemistry lesson students complete a group lab activity and relate it to the periodic table. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Periodic Table of Elements

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this chemistry worksheet, students examine the elements and focus on things like the mass and order for the location to match with the type of elements.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Periodic Table Patterns using Fabulous Periodic

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explain how elements are arranged in the periodic table. In this chemistry lesson, students group the eggs according to a certain pattern. They compare this to elements in the periodic table.   
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using several learning modalities to teach about the Periodic Table.

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify how to relate the position of an element in the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass. They identify how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, nonmetals, and halogens, and also,...
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PPT
Curated OER

Essential Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A color-coded periodic table identifies organic elements, major minerals, and trace elements. Oxidation states are highlighted and types of chemical bonding are annotated. The electron energy level chart is explained. Though not all of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basic Chemistry Principles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils use the basic principles of Chemistry to determine pH levels. Elements of the Periodic Table are also included in this lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Periodic Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students review periodic table of elements, choose one element, and create piece of poetry about it using Cinquain, Haiku, or Acrostic format. Students then read aloud their poems to classmates.
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Worksheet
T. Trimpe

Atomic Basics

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Get down to basics with these worksheets on the structure of atoms. Challenging young chemists to identify information from the periodic table and create Bohr diagrams and Lewis dot structures for different elements, this...
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Lesson Plan
EduGAINs

Chemical Properties Investigation

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
This lesson demonstrates differentiated instruction at its best. Over the course of 2-3 class periods, young chemists have the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of metals and their chemical properties from a variety of...
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PPT
NASA

Atoms, Elements, and Isotopes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Rings and golden nuggets contain the element gold, but how small can you break it down before it is no longer considered gold? A helpful presentation explains the basics about atoms, elements, and isotopes through a presentation.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elemental Photography

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate objects for a specific element from the Periodic Table.  In this elemental photography lesson, 8th graders observe for and object and photograph it. Students use photographs to prepare a multimedia...

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