A Fresh Look at the Periodic Table

Define and discover

  • Restate the problem you are trying to solve in your own worlds.

The problem I’m trying to solve is that I need to organize the periodic table differently, or add something to the periodic table that makes it better then the original periodic table. Im trying to make the period table better, by making it so you don’t have to waste your time trying to find the elements on the Periodic table, because the original periodic table is all mashed together so its hard trying to find each element.

 

  • Develop some question to research before starting to brainstorm

 

  • How many elements are on the periodic table?
  • What are the family’s of the periodic table?
  • Examples of different periodic tables?
  • What are the current problems of the periodic table?
  • What could I add to the periodic table?

Dream

  • What information does the periodic table tell you

the period table tells us the:

  • Name of each element
  • Atomic number
  • Atomic mass
  • Symbol
  • Ion charge
  • protons
  • what elements are metals and non metals

 

  • how can you arrange the periodic table differently based on it physical and chemical properties

You could arrange the elements physically based on if its a solid, liquid, or gas  or you could make three different sections, one for solids, liquids and gases so it’s easy to find them. You could arrange the element on the chemical properties, from most to least reactive or from least to most reactive and you could arrange them based on how they react.

  • What different shapes could be used

A circle could be used to show the shells of each element for example each ring of the element would have that number of shell like ring number one would have one shell and number two would have two and so on , a cube would work well too because there are 5 families and each family would have a side and the one remaining shell would have information like on what the stuff on the element means.

  • How can you use colour

I  could use colour to identify the different families on the period table. I can also use colour to show what element are metals and what ones are non-metal and you can use colour to tell what elements are a solid, liquid and a gas.

Design

  • What is your plan

My plan is to make a cube with the 5 families with one family on each side of the cube, but one side will have two families on it because I will also have section that has element that don’t belong in those five family. I decided to do the family we learned about, which are and noble gases, halogens, transition metals, Alkali metals and Alkaline Earth Metals. I will also have  a side that tells what the stuff on the elements means, like how it does that on the original period table. I will also colour each family one colour so you can tell what family is what and write facts about each family.

  • Make it happen

How I made it happen is I first printed out a big periodic table and cut out each family and colour each family after that I wrote down facts about the families and taped out the families and taped the family and the fact for that family on a piece of cardboard when I was done doing that for each family I taped the pieces of cardboard together and made a cube.  Last step is to add a little pick dot on each element that is a non metal, so you can tell the different between what one is a metal and what one  is a non metal.

Deliver

I made a cube and on each side that had one of the five families I learned about which are halogens, noble gases, transition metals, alkali metals and alkaline earth metal. I also put a section of other elements on my period table because they didn’t fit into the five families. Then I wrote facts about the halogen, noble gases, alkali metals and alkaline earth metals and then I colour each of the five families a different colour so you could no which family they were. I also had a side that tells the what the stuff on each element meant like it does on the original periodic table.

Debrief

  • How could you have improved your plan

I could of improved on my plan by being more organized and by making the cube look less messy by doing better on taping the cube together. I also could added more stuff to the cube if a thought out of the box.

Explanation

I decided to make a cube period table that have one of the five family we learned about  on one side I also have I section for the other elements that don’t fit into those families. The names of the family I’m using are Noble gases, Alkali metals, Alkaline earth metal, Transition metals and Halogens. I decided to make a cube period table because it is hard to find all the element on the period table because there all mashed together so I thought it wound be easier if sectioned them off so it wound be easier to find them, to make to even easier I coloured each family a different colour so its easier to tell what family your looking at. I also put a pink dot on or beside each element that’s a non metal because we need to know if an element is a non metal or a metal so we can make compounds, classify the element properly and to make molecules. Then I saved a side of the cube that tells you what the numbers and symbols on the element are, for example what the atomic mass is or Ion charge of the element, I copied this idea off the original periodic table . I also have facts for noble gases, alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and halogens, some of the facts I used are how many electrons are in their outer shell.