Thursday, March 10, 2011

Grade 8 Week 18: The Periodic Table of Elements

This week we look at how elements are arranged by their properties.  We will end by blowing stuff up, but we must first begin by finding the properties that makes that "stuff" blow up.

How are elements arranged on the periodic table?
What classifies elements into those groups?



Contract 18 has students using that same atom to fill in the periodic table on the ceiling or researching famous chemists.

3 comments:

Cam said...

Elements are aranged in the periodic table by their atomic number and weight, their chemical properties like metal, non metal and metalliods and what states of matter they exsist in. They are also arranged by chemical simularities like same number of shells and how electronegative the element is, or if they are radioactive.

Alex L said...

Mr. Hoopman-

where do we put our name on the poster? Do we color the name of the element with a certain color?

Anonymous said...

Elements in the periodic table and arranged by their atomic weight, their atomic number, if they're a metalloid, non-metal, or a metal, and their radioactivity.