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Teaching science through theatre

As a student embarking into the sciences more years ago than I care to admit, I fell in love with the periodic table. For me it was a metaphor for life and living. The relationships and inter-relationships spoke to me of human engagement and interaction, the results of suc

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Building Bridges with Indigenous Learners | EdCan Network

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Curriculum, EdTech & Design, Indigenous Learning, Promising Practices Teaching science through theatre As a student embarking into the sciences more years ago than I care to admit, I fell in love with the periodic table. For me it was a metaphor for life and living.

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Initiative to Connect Traditional Knowledge to the Periodic Table

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Initiative to Connect Traditional Knowledge to the Periodic Table

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Many organizations and education programs are working together to build better connections for First Nations, Métis and Inuit students to recognize themselves in science. This initiative aims to create a model for how organizations, schools and STEM industries can connect with local community members to create a world where Indigenous students can see themselves and be themselves within science. The objective of this initiative is to bring together Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Keepers along with Indigenous scientists from all areas of science to have consciousness-raising discussions about Indigenous relationships to the elements within the periodic table.

About the initiative

Many science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs are seeking to broaden inclusion and participation of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students. However, a major hurdle to success has been that common approaches to STEM education rarely incorporate the cultural views of Indigenous communities, and do not reflect the perspectives of traditional ways of understanding of the world.

In the summer of 2021, members of the science promotion team at The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the education team at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) saw an opportunity to collaborate on the development of a new educational tool that presents traditional knowledge alongside standardized scientific information. After a series of discussions, the concept of an interactive Indigenous Periodic Table of the Elements presented the strongest potential as a new educational resource.

To explore interest in their concept, NSERC and CLS partnered to host a workshop during Science Literacy Week with a panel of eleven Indigenous scientists, educators, and Traditional Knowledge Keepers.

Over the course of two days, panel members heard presentations delving into the stories behind some elements on the Periodic Table, and a scientist from CLS led a live demonstration of a sample analysis of berries using Canada's only synchrotron and revealed the elements they are made of. Members also presented guidance on adapting science education to Indigenous cultures and languages and led discussions on content that should be included in a potential Indigenous Table of Elements along with examples of traditional stories related to periodic elements.

At the end of the workshop, the proposal was warmly endorsed by those in attendance. Members supported not only further development of an interactive Indigenous Table of the Elements but encouraged NSERC and CLS to expand the scope of the project so it could be adapted by Indigenous communities around the world.

NSERC and CLS are now seeking to add collaborators from other regions to this panel to help guide the development of a useable template for an interactive Indigenous Table of the Elements, with plans to connect the project to existing Indigenous science and language conferences to create language translation partnerships that will increase its usefulness.

Panel members

*Traditional Knowledge Keepers

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Connecting traditional knowledge with the periodic table of elements

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Many organizations and education programs are working together to build better connections for First Nations, Métis and Inuit students to recognize themselves in science. This initiative aims to create a model for how organizations, schools and STEM industries can connect with local community members to create a world where Indigenous students can see themselves and be themselves within science.

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Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide

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Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide

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Wide variety of periodic tables, cards & worksheets to choose from.

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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Huge variety of periodic tables to choose from and print according to your needs.

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A printable periodic table is an essential tool for students and chemists. You can place it where you need it while solving problems, mark it up, and print a new one whenever you like. This is a collection of free printable periodic tables in PDF file or PNG image format to save, print, and use. What we've done is list the tables, along with links, so you can get detailed info about each one. The HD periodic tables make great screen savers or reference tables on mobile devices. They are sized to fit on a sheet of paper and you don't need to worry about marking them up because you can always print more for working homework problems or performing lab calculations. The tables re-size cleanly, so you can view or print at any size or aspect ratio, from tiny to poster-sized.

To download a table, click the image for the full-size version to right-click and save. PDF periodic tables and additional color options are available on each table's main page via the link.

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118 Element Color Printable Periodic Table
Do you want all the latest element facts and figures? This printable periodic table cites the atomic mass significant figures in keeping with the most recent IUPAC values. This is the periodic table we recommend you use for calculations and homework. You can right-click the image to download it or grab the PDF file of the periodic table.

2019 Printable Periodic Table
New for 2019! This printable periodic table cites the IUPAC standard atomic mass values. This is an accurate up-to-date table for calculations and homework. You can right-click the image to download it or grab the PDF file of the periodic table.

Black and White Printable Periodic Table
New for 2019! This black and white printable periodic table is specially designed for middle school or high school use. It includes electron configurations, oxidation states, groups, periods, and more. Right-click the image to download it or grab the PDF file for printing.

Periodic Table for Kids
This 118 element printable periodic table is perfect for kids or anyone who wants a clean-looking chart with atomic weights rounded to the usual two decimal points. It's a lot less confusing for homework! This table is available in color, black/white, or as a PDF download.

Colored Periodic Table
This color periodic table is brightly colored and optimized to fit on a single sheet of paper. It has, along with the usual information, a legend square and numbered columns, and family names recommended by the IUPAC. [PDF]

Carina Nebula Periodic Table
This table is available as a poster, with the Carina Nebula (a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope). [ JPG]

Element Charges Periodic Table
This printable table lists the most common charges or oxidation states carried by atoms of each element. The table is available in either black/white or color in PDF file or PNG image format. It contains the essential element facts, so you can use it as a standard periodic table just fine. [ black/white PDF][ color PDF]

Element Discovery Dates Periodic Table
Each element cell of this table cites the year in which that element was discovered. The coloring of the tiles groups elements according to the time periodic of their discovery. See if you can spot the first manmade element. Here's a hint: the element symbol starts with a "T". [ PNG on black][ PNG on white]

Periodic Table with Electron Shells
Tired of figuring out electron configurations or just want to check your work? This printable table shows element name, symbol, number, group, and also the filling of the electron shells. It's one of the most comprehensive periodic tables on the site.

Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals Periodic Table
This is a collection of printable periodic tables that show the metals, metalloids (semimetals), and nonmetals as well as the properties of these important element groups. The properties of these element groups are listed, too.

How To Use a Periodic Table
Learn how to read a periodic table. Now you have a periodic table, are you sure you know how to use it? Here's a look at the type of information you'll find on a typical periodic table and how to use it to answer questions about the elements.

Periodic Table Element Cells
This is a collection of individual element cells that you can save and print. Individual element cells are supplied as PNG files, You may also download the entire collection of elements as a PDF file. A few color variations are available, including a black and white set of tiles.

More Printable Periodic Tables

Here are some more periodic tables you can download or print. Some of these tables don't include the four most recently discovered elements, but it's not like you need those for calculations. Some of these tables are classics, while others feature cool artwork. If you see a table you like and want the additional data, post a comment and we can update it.

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Printable Periodic Table Without Names
This chart features the element symbols, atomic numbers, and atomic weights, but does not list the element names. You can use it to help learn to associate the names and symbols, like for quizzes and such. The color version of the table includes the element groups and a key, while the black and white version omits the groups, so you can learn those or color them in. PDFs files are available for both tables. [ color PDF][ black and white PDF]

Colored Bar Periodic Table
This chart has a black background with white text. Colored bars are used to distinguish between the element groups. We were aiming for a subtle rainbow effect here. This is a nice table for a screen saver or to look up information on a mobile device. Visit this table's page to get details about its features. It's easy on the eyes in a darkened room.

Futuristic Periodic Table WallpaperHere is another HD periodic table wallpaper for your desktop, laptop, or mobile device. This one features translucent element tiles and a space-theme background. We like this one as a monitor screensaver. Open the image and right-click to save it to your device.

Fireworks Periodic Table
The fireworks periodic table shows which elements are important in fireworks and pyrotechnics. It's color coded, too.

Periodic Table Optimized for Printing
You can print any of these tables (just select "print to fit"), but this particular set of tables was specially designed to look great on regular printer paper. The tables maximize the available space on a sheet of paper, so you get the easiest-to-read printed version. Other printer-optimized tables are also available:

Glowing Text Periodic Table
New for 2019! These printable periodic tables appear to be glowing, like they were drawn using highlighters, or slightly radioactive, depending on the color you choose. The tables print up nicely, but where they really shine is as computer or phone wallpapers. Color options include glowing rad red, va-va-voom violet, glistening gold, green blue, and vivid yellow.

Black and White Printable Table - Negative Colors
This negative-colored periodic table contains essential information, such as element names, element symbols, atomic number, atomic mass, and element group. Although it's not something you'd probably want to print, it's very easy to read on a screen, such as on your phone or computer. In fact, it's our favorite table for mobile. If you don't like the black with white text, there is a regular black and white or color version.

Neon Periodic Table
This is a color printable periodic table with a neon color scheme. The neon effect borders the cells, leaving the element tiles clear so you can read the text. The table is available as either a png image file or as a PDF with either a transparent background or a black background. The colors really pop on a monitor or phone.

Colorful Periodic Table
This is another colorful periodic table. It has a cheery color scheme, making a rainbow from the alkali metals over to the noble gases. It's also available with a black background or as a PDF file. As always, it includes essential element facts needed to study chemistry and make calculations. We put a gap between the element cells to make the chart easy to read.

Original Printable Periodic Table
This is the original periodic table at Science Notes and About.com Chemistry (now ThoughtCo.com). It's not as accurate as the newer printable periodic tables given here because it doesn't have the data for the four newest elements, but a lot of you request it.

Early Muted Colors Periodic Tables
Relax with a muted color printable periodic table that's easy on the eyes, so you can have pretty colors and still read the data clearly. They make a rainbow! The table is available with a transparent background (appears white, but it's actually clear) or a black background. It includes all the usual essential element data: element groups, atomic numbers, atomic weights, symbols, and element names. The element group key is posted directly below the periodic table.

Printing Instructions for the Printable Periodic Tables

You can either print the HD image file (PNG) or else you can open and print the PDF files. It's a simple matter to spread out the image over several pages to make a large wall poster, too. We recommend you print the PDF files because they are made for that purpose!

Special Requests

Would you like to see a different color scheme, the periodic table in a different language, a periodic table for a particular holiday, or the element groups assigned differently? Let us know and we'll make up a table for you!

Printable Periodic Tables Terms of Use

Please feel free to print these tables for personal use and to hand out to students. You can post them in your classroom, lab, kitchen, etc. and display them on your phone and computer. You may not copy and post the periodic tables on your own website. You may not sell them or adapt them to sell.

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Free Printable Periodic Tables (PDF and PNG) - Science Notes and Projects

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A printable periodic table is an essential tool for students and chemists. You can place it where you need it while solving problems, mark it up, and print a new one whenever you like. This is a collection of free printable periodic tables in PDF file or PNG image format to save, print, and use.

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Matching game, students are given the full element name and have to find the symbol.

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Memorizing the names of all the elements can be tough. The way the periodic table is organized can be a big help but associating the elements' names with their chemical symbols works too! This quiz game can help you identify all 118 elements based on their symbol. Some symbols offer an alphabetic clue as to the name of the element, like the V for Vanadium, to give just one example. But that trick's not foolproof-the symbol for Potassium is K, so you'll have to pay attention to names of elements like that. Use this engaging quiz game, and before you know it, you'll be able to identify all the elements with ease!

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Periodic Table of the Elements, With Symbols

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Periodic Table of the Elements, With Symbols - Science Quiz: Memorizing the names of all the elements can be tough. The way the periodic table is organized can be a big help but associating the elements' names with their chemical symbols works too! This quiz game can help you identify all 118 elements based on their symbol.

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Students use their knowledge of the periodic table to ask knowledgeable questions to play battleship against a classmate.

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Need an idea for teaching the Periodic Table of Elements to Kids? You are in the right place. I am so glad you stopped by! You will love this periodic table battleship game.

I have posted a lot about Chemistry for Kids lately. My oldest has been studying it and really enjoying it. I love his science-y mind!

Think the periodic table is not for kids? Think again. Why not start them young?!

Today I have a really fun & simple chemistry game to share. We played a game called Periodic Table Battleship! This game is so much fun! I think that you will love it, too.

(Also: see 200+ more STEM projects for kids)

The game can be played even by kids who know nothing about the Periodic Table Yet. My 8-year-old daughter has not studied any chemistry yet, but really enjoyed this one.

Kids will be learning chemistry in such a fun way without even realizing it! You'll love hearing them call out the names of different elements and getting familiar with the structure of the periodic table. You can make your own version of the game and I will show you how!

About the Periodic Table:

The periodic table was first started by a Russian chemist named Dimitri Mendeleev started the development of the periodic table, arranging chemical elements by atomic mass.

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How to Make the Periodic Table Game:

To make the Periodic Table Battleship game, print out 4 copies of the Periodic Table.
Supplies: To Assemble:
Along the left side of the table, I labeled the rows alphabetically. (**This is optional but helps younger kids who are uncomfortable pronouncing the names of the elements yet.) They already have row numbers along the top. Laminating makes it re-usable!

I used two file folders and hooked them together at the top with a giant paper clip. Attach two of the periodic tables in with that paper clip as well. Then lay the other two periodic tables down on the table in the folder. If you want it to be more permanent you can glue them on or attach with double sided tape.

Mark with dry erase markers where you want to place your ships by circling rows of 2, 3, 4, and 5 elements on the lower table. (You can pick how many of each.)

Make it a bit more complicated by requiring them to have a ship in each of the sections: alkali metals, transition metals, noble gases, halogens, etc.

You play by calling out coordinates, atomic numbers, atomic symbols, or element names. If you miss you put an X on the spot you chose on the upper table.

If you get a hit, then circle it. You can continue playing until one person sinks all of another person's ships. You sink a ship by hitting all the spots in a row the other person circled.

You can begin to get them familiar with the various parts of the table, the properties of the elements, how the elements are arranged, the atomic weight, the element symbols, the number of protons, the number of electrons, their atomic mass, and the order of their atomic number, etc.

More About the Periodic Table

The periodic table was first started by a Russian chemist named Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. He began organizing the elements by atomic mass leaving space for elements yet discovered. And they still are being discovered! In December of 2016, new elements were added: elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.

Nihonium (Nh), is element 113

Moscovium (Mc), is element 115

Tennessine (Ts), is element 117

Oganesson (Og), is element 118

The table is organized by atomic number, from the element with the lowest atomic number at the far left, hydrogen, to the element with the highest atomic number, oganesson at the far right. Each element is given an atomic number. Atomic numbers are the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of that element.

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See the periodic table game in action! Watch my kids playing the Periodic Table Battleship Game.

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Periodic Table Game for Kids: Periodic Table Battleship

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What a chemistry activity for kids? Learn the Periodic Table of Elements with kids in a fun way by playing the Periodic Table Battleship game!

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Students test their memory skills and try and list all the elements of the periodic table.

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Can you name the elements of the periodic table? Test your knowledge on this science quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others.

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Students learn about how the periodic table came to be, including the genius who started it, Dmitri Mendeleev.

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The Periodic Table: Crash Course Chemistry #4

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Students are assigned an element and they make a larger version of it (class combines to make a giant table). Students also have questions to research for their element.
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Students use investigation to learn how to sort by characteristics.

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This sounds really nerdy but I absolutely love the Periodic Table. I think it's one of the most fascinating tools in science and I love bringing it to life for my students. I have created a lot of resources around the Periodic Table because as a young student I never really appreciated its usefulness. Through college and grad school, I really did.

This 'Periodic People' activity has become a favorite lesson and definitely my favorite way to introduce the concept of the Periodic Table as a table of patterns! This activity was adapted from the Oakland Schools Chemistry Resource Unit. The original activity includes a perfectly useful but more simplistic version of the 'Periodic People' cards. Somewhere along the way, I found the cutest set of these that had been re-drawn by an artist named Renee Kimpel. She had them on her blog for free download. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find Renee and her blog again to give her proper credit (if you do know about this blog or where the re-drawn Periodic People can be found, please leave this in the comment section below!).

I am providing a FREE DOWNLOAD of this resource, so be sure to scroll to the bottom to grab the freebie!

This is a hands-on inquiry-based activity for which students are introduced by an engaging prompt:
You have been chosen for this top secret mission. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to work with the "sketches" of the suspicious characters on the secret agent list. They are part of a family of secret agents, but the most deadly of all has never been sketched. Your job is to arrange the sketches in a pattern so that you can draw the missing secret agent.
In groups of two or three, students will figure out a way to arrange 17 drawings of 'Periodic People' into a table that considers patterns. There are patterns going up and down and across from left to right! These patterns include the body size (skinny to fat), the number of antennae (1 to 8), the number of fingers (1 to 18), the number of arms (1 to 3), the facial expression (really sad to super happy), and the body design pattern (9 different ones). These patterns are synonymous with the major patterns on the Periodic Table itself- the number of electron shells increases moving down a column, the number of valence electrons increases moving from left to right across a row, the electronegativity increases moving from left to right across the main group elements, etc.

If you've already taught atomic structure, then your students may recognize these 'personified' patterns themselves! The number of arms represents the number of electron shells, the number of antennae represents the number of valence electrons, the number of fingers represents the atomic number. This year, one of my students even noticed something I hadn't before- the number of fingers on each specific hand represents the number of electrons in each specific electron shell (K, L, and M). I gave myself a secret HIGH-FIVE when he pointed this out to me!

But, don't worry, you can use this awesome activity even if you haven't taught these patterns yet! Either way, I have a great activity in my TPT store that works perfectly before (while teaching atomic structure) or after this one! (Check out my Bohr Atoms Diagrams Manipulatives Activity.)

You can grab this PERIODIC PEOPLE ACTIVITY, including the people cards, teacher notes and table answer key! And I have added a digital Google Slides version of the activity, too! Click the link above to download the resource and get the Make a Copy link!

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ideas and resources for middle school science educators

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My Favorite Way to Introduce the Periodic Table

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This sounds really nerdy but I absolutely love the Periodic Table. I think it's one of the most fascinating tools in science and I love bringing it to life for my students. I have created a lot of resources around the Periodic Table because as a young student I never really appreciated its usefulness.

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Students use their knowledge of the periodic table to hunt for elements by using their symbols, numbers, groups, mass and physical properties.

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Grab your periodic table and search for the answers to this Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt!

How To Use the Scavenger Hunt Worksheets

Use a periodic table to hunt up the answers to these 20 periodic table questions. The reward for your hard work is an expanded knowledge of how to use a periodic table!

Download the PDF of this worksheet for easier printing. If you need the answers, simply take a look at the answer key. If you need to print the answer key, use this PDF.

Happy Hunting!

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Grab your periodic table and search for the answers to this Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt! Use a periodic table to hunt up the answers to these 20 periodic table questions. The reward for your hard work is an expanded knowledge of how to use a periodic table!

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Learn the elements of the periodic table with this catchy tune!

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The Periodic Table Song (2018 Update!) | SCIENCE SONGS

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Periodic Table with clickable elements that detail physical properties as well as where you can find it in real life.

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Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

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Use protons, neutrons, and electrons to build atoms and identify them using the Periodic Table of Elements. Predict what will happen if you alter your creation to add or remove part of an atom.

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Build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change. Then play a game to test your ideas!