

Horton’s “Element Hunt Project” ( doc) where students collect as many pure elements as they can around the home and create a poster with them.

Do this “Elements” ( pdf) crossword puzzle with answers.“ Arsenic and Old Lace: The Chemistry Connection” ( doc) is a WebQuest that uses the old movie and has different students in a group act as chemist, doctor, historian, and reporter to produce a video for the class.Abigail Freiberger provided this “Martian Periodic Table” ( doc) activity using this ( xls) table.Try this Discovery School “ Science Hits” activity where students will listen to a recording of “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer (1960) and write their own song for recalling scientific information.Play Tom Lehrer’s “ The Elements” song or show this Flash animation of the song by Mike Stanfill.Students mark the symbol of that element on their bingo cards ( pdf). Play “ Elements Bingo” by randomly selecting elements from a paper copy ( pdf) of the periodic table, randomly selecting an element and calling out the name of the element while crossing it off the periodic table.Have students do this “Periodic Table” Crossword Puzzle ( pdf).

Use this template to make “Periodic Table Cards” ( pdf) of the common elements.Do this “Periodic Table Basics” Worksheet ( pdf).Use the periodic table to make “ Element Windsocks.”.Have students make an “ Element Brochure.”.Do the “Getting to Know the Periodic Table” Worksheet.Try these Metal and Nonmetal Wordsearches.An check out “Finding the Moment of Inertia for the Magic Square” ( doc) to delve into the theory of magic squares. Have students do the “Periodic Table” Magic Square.Find just about any type of periodic table you want in pdf form to print for your students at TheScience Geek’s site.
