Periodic table
(Second photo is the legend)
Define:
– How did the elements get their atomic symbol?
– How did the elements get their spots on the table?
– Why is hydrogen by itself?
– Why is there a disconnection with the Lanthanide and the Actinide series?
– Why is hydrogen on both sides of the periodic table?
– What is the rarest element?
Dream:
The periodic table tells us:
– Where each type of metals is located.
– How many protons, electrons and neutrons there are in each element.
– What family each element belongs in.
– The rows and periods, the mass and atomic number of the elements.
– The state of matter.
– The smell.
Deliver:
On my group’s periodic table, we used hexagons instead of squares. We wanted to try and form a big hexagon using the hexagons. We arranged the table by the element numbers. Here is how we color coded the elements:
- Orange for hydrogen
- Blue for metals
- Yellow for non-metals
- Aqua for actinides
- Pink for lanthanides
- Green for metalloids
- Purple polka dots for alkaline metals
- Red polka dots for alkaline earth metals
- Pink polka dots for noble gases
- Dark blue for undiscovered elements
Debrief:
I think before drawing our periodic table out, we should’ve chose a better shape instead of hexagons. We overlapped the hexagons so there were some tiny skinny diamonds in the middle of the elements which (in my opinion,) looked a bit messy and made the table hard to read. If we drew a periodic table with octagons, maybe it could make the layout look more neat and easier to read.