Periodic Table

Teaching decontextualized chemistry has often made it difficult for teachers to connect chemistry to students' everyday lives.

March Madness isn't just for basketball fans! With a little twist, Chemistry teachers can bring the excitement of this tournament into their classrooms. In this blog post, I'll outline our annual engaging March Madness-inspired project where students create persuasive presentations on the deadliest chemical elements.

As a high school chemistry teacher, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the classic element project. You know the one - each student chooses an element to research and then creates a new, fun “box” to represent their element.

Chem Cards is a game that can familiarize students with chemistry; from historical events and figures to nomenclature and minerals.

After an introduction to atomic structure, the next unit in my interactive notebook is on the Periodic Table. We explore the vocabulary and patterns on the periodic table, and examine how electrons tie into those patterns.

In 2019, the 150th anniversary of the creation of the first Periodic Table established by Dimitri Mendeleiev was commemorated.

Learning about the periodic table and how the elements are arranged are both essential to success in chemistry. On October 7th, 2021, Rachmad Tjachyadi shared his unit covering the periodic table and periodic trends in this ChemBasics Talk.

A proficient understanding of the periodic table is indispensable for students studying chemistry. Chemical properties, bonding, and reactions are routinely explained using the trends and patterns of the periodic table.