Week 12- October 18, 2018 The Periodic Table

This week we learned all about the Periodic Table. We watched an excellent video from Crash Course that discussed Dmitri Mendeleev and how he developed the periodic table. A link to the video is provided below:

Once we watched the introductory video, it was time for us as a class to organize candy periodically. This took a little time, but once we finished it was much easier to understand the genius in Mendeleev's approach.

Below are the two pages of notes for The Periodic Table.

The Periodic Table Notes page 1

The Periodic Table Notes page 2

The next activity involved us learning about the various groups/families on the periodic table and color coding tables to glue into our interactive notebooks. 

Our next set of notes covers what we discussed in class, the properties associated with each of the groups on the Periodic Table. See notes below:

Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids Notes pg. 1

Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids Notes page 2

Unfortunately, we ran out of time to play Periodic Table Battleship, but we will play this and explore elements further this coming week before we move on to writing chemical formulas and chemical reactions.