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Printable Signal Flag Periodic Table

Joseph Lomax | Mon, 12/16/2024 - 10:13

Nothing is more iconographic to Chemistry as the Periodic Table, and Signal Flags are colorful and dandy design that are iconographic to the seafaring community. While teaching chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy, the author used Signal Flags to make the Element Symbols giving a structure that is immediately recognizable, yet somewhat mysterious. Use the supporting information to download the author's version or customize your own!

Social Justice Science Issues and NGSS

Nina Hike | Sun, 10/20/2024 - 14:41

How can chemistry address real-world issues? Explore how teaching Social Justice Science Issues helps students connect chemistry to their local communities. By integrating student community-centered storylines, teachers can engage students in critical thinking about chemistry topics and how they apply to their everyday lives. 

Open Source Chem Card Game

Thomas Manning | Thu, 07/27/2023 - 19:15

Chem Cards is a game including 118 cards, one for each element. It is designed to familiarize students of all ages with chemical terminology so they grow comfortable with the topic and equate it to an exciting, team building experience. 

Turning Element Abbreviations into a Strategic Exercise

Thomas Manning | Mon, 10/24/2022 - 12:44

Various types of puzzles are widely used in STEM learning activities due to their ability to familiarize students with given content using a strategic approach. In this novel puzzle, there are two steps to complete the exercise. The first step involves the participant identifying periodic table element abbreviations within a specific word. The second step involves fitting the corresponding element names into a blank crossword format. The students become familiar with the elements and their abbreviations, as well as their location on the periodic table.

Three-dimensional figure to improve the didactics of the Periodic Table

PABLO CASSINELLO | Mon, 04/04/2022 - 10:00

A kaleidocycle is presented in which the entire periodic table has been collected. In this three-dimensional figure are the elements organized in four blocks according to their final electronic structure. It is intended that students with this playful figure actively participate in classes by rotating their kaleidocycle looking for the groups or elements that are being studied. The entire periodic table fits in one palm of their hands. It is also a didactic device because students only focus their attention on one block or group of elements from the entire Periodic Table. It can be achieved a more entertaining, motivating and exciting learning about the subject of the Periodic Table.

The Periodic Table & Periodic Trends with Rachmad Tjachyadi

Deanna Cullen | Thu, 10/14/2021 - 16:50

In this ChemBasics Talk, Rachmad Tjachyadi offers everything necessary to plan a unit on the topic of the periodic table and periodic trends including linked NGSS standards, introductory activities and handouts, manipulative activities, practice problems, links to real world context, a lab and an assortment of videos. Watch the recording and access resources he shared.

Periodic Table Battleship

Josh Kenney | Sun, 07/25/2021 - 12:43

Many novice students struggle to see elements' valence electron configuration trends across the rows and columns on the periodic table. There are many diagrams and explanations available as resources for students however, a deeper understanding may be possible when students discover these trends independently through a game called Electron Configuration Battleship.