Explanation

My partner and I decided to first organize the periodic table by its most common ionic charge, so we made a wheel and wrote out every single charge from negative three to positive seven and all the charges in between. If elements had the same ionic charge, we organized it by its atomic number. This also orders it by how many protons as well as electrons are in each atom.  By ordering it by its atomic number, we also ordered by it’s atomic mass from least to greatest.

 

Another way we organized our periodic table was by colouring the solids, liquids, and gases different colours. The solids were kept white, the liquids were coloured blue and the gases were all coloured yellow. We also coloured the alkali metals, alkali earth metals, halogens, and noble gases’ symbols and gave them each their own shape symbol. The Alkali metals are coloured purple and have a purple star above their element symbol. The Alkali earth metals are coloured green with a square symbol, while, colouring the Halogens orange and giving them a triangle symbol, and the noble gases were pink with a circle on top.

 

The last way we organized our periodic table is that we separated the metals and the non-metals by drawing a red staircase around all the non metals.

 

 

6 D’s

 

Define and Discover:

• We are trying to re-organize/re-create the periodic table of elements to make it more creative, more efficient, more visually appealing, or more effective.

 

• How could you make it more visually appealing without decreasing its effectiveness?
• What should be kept the same?
• What variations have already been created?

 

Dream:

 

What information does the periodic table tell you?

 

• The periodic table tells us the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons, as well as the atomic mass and how many elements there are. It also tells us which elements are metals, non-metals, solids, liquids, and gases, as well as the ionic charge(s) of each.

 

How could you arrange it differently based on its chemical and physical properties?

 

• We could reorganize the periodic table in a number of ways:

 

• We could arrange it by state (solid, liquid, gas)
• We could switch the families and periods around
• We could order the elements from most common to least common (rarity)
• We could order them by their Ionic charge from positive to negative.
• We could order them from the element’s number of neutrons or electrons
• We could arrange by how many electron shells they have
• We could order them by the element’s chemical properties such as reactivity, magnetism, etc.

 

What different shapes could be used?

 

• Use different shapes for non-metals and different shapes for metals.
• Do the same for solids, liquids, and gases.
• Shape it all into a circle or other shape.
• We could have different shapes for synthetics

 

How can you use colour?

 

• Have each family a different colour, arrange by colour of element, colour each period, colour by ionic charge, colour by atomic mass.

 

Design:

• Our plan is to organize each element into groups and see how we can keep them together once we order them on the periodic table.
• We plan to use trial and error to look at each of our options and see which one is best.
• Once we have figured out what we are going to do, waste no time creating it, adding in things as we see fit.

 

Deliver:

 

My partner and I decided to first organize the periodic table by its most common ionic charge, so we made a wheel and wrote out every single charge from negative three to positive seven and all the charges in between. If elements had the same ionic charge, we organized it by its atomic number. This also orders it by how many protons as well as electrons are in each atom.  By ordering it by its atomic number, we also ordered by it’s atomic mass from least to greatest.

 

Another way we organized our periodic table was by colouring the solids, liquids, and gases different colours. The solids were kept white, the liquids were coloured blue and the gases were all coloured yellow. We also coloured the alkali metals, alkali earth metals, halogens, and noble gases’ symbols and gave them each their own shape symbol. The Alkali metals are coloured purple and have a purple star above their element symbol. The Alkali earth metals are coloured green with a square symbol, while, colouring the Halogens orange and giving them a triangle symbol, and the noble gases were pink with a circle on top.

 

The last way we organized our periodic table is that we separated the metals and the non-metals by drawing a red staircase around all the non metals.

 

Debrief:

 

My partner and I did a good job to create our version of the periodic table of elements, but it wasn’t perfect and there is something we can always improve on.

 

The first improvement is that we needed to figure out what strategy we were going to use to organize our periodic table a lot soon then we did. We spent too much time trying to figure out what we were going to do, that it wasted a huge chunk of the time we were given. The consequence of taking too long on the decision-making aspect of the project was that it put us behind schedule at the end of the first day. If we had come to a decision earlier, we would’ve had more time to work on everything else.

 

The second thing that we could improve on is making a good copy. The copy that we handed in wasn’t as neat as it could have been and was overall a little messy. We didn’t have enough time make a better copy because we spent too much time on the organization of our periodic table. We could have made a good copy that showed the true extent of our capabilities, including our creativity and knowledge. Our core competencies would be shown stronger if we had not spent so much time deciding. Even with these mistakes I think that we a pretty good job at creating our version of the periodic table giving it a new look that could help people in the future.