Category: ADL 10 Assignments

My Periodic Table of Elements Explanation

 

Me and my partner’s periodic table is sorted in a number of different ways for a different view on the elements and for easier use when exploring the ionic charges of elements. Our periodic table has five patterns that help the user identify elements certain qualities. Our periodic table’s main pattern is that it is arranged by ionic charge. Each of the twelve sections hold elements with the corresponding ionic charge labeled in that section. There is positive one through seven, negative one to three, an other section for the elements that have ionic charges that are not shown because not enough is known about them or they don’t have a predictable ionic charge, and finally, a neutral section for the noble gases. In each of the sections, elements are arranged by atomic number so the element is easier to find in each section. The solids, liquids and gases are all sorted by colour. All of the solids are white, while the liquids are shaded blue, and the gases are shaded yellow. We kept this trait from the original periodic table because without it, one would not know whether an object was a solid, liquid, or gas; they would either have to know from prior knowledge, or research to find out. The next organizational method we used was also from the original periodic table. We have a red box separating our non-metals from our metals so that the user can easily figure out if an element is a metal or not. The last thing we did to categorize the elements on our periodic table was keeping the different families together. We left the transitioning metals white, but the other families we highlighted. Elements with a purple highlighted symbol and star belong to the alkali metal family. The alkaline earth metals have a green highlighted symbol and green square. An orange triangle and highlighted symbol, means they are part of the halogen family. Lastly, the noble gases have a pink highlighted symbol and contain a pink circle. With these different qualities, our periodic table allows easy use, showing the user details such as the element being a non-metal or metal, solid, liquid, or gas, and what family each element exist in. With this, and being sorted by ionic charge, our periodic table is a useful variation of the original that offers its own benefits that the original did not have.

 

New Periodic Table Project  (6 D’s)

Define and Discover:

• 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:

 

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

 

• We could arrange it by state (solid, liquid, gas). Switch the families and periods around. Most common to least common (rarity). Ionic charge. Amount of neutrons or electrons. Electron shells. Chemical properties such as reactivity, magnetism, etc.

 

• We could use shapes for non-metals and different shapes for metals. Do the same except for solids, liquids, and gases. Shape it all into a circle or other shape. Shape it into a picture, for ex. A Bohr diagram. Different shapes for synthetics

 

• 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.
• 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:

• See below our periodic table for the explanation of it.

 

Debrief:

• Me and my partner worked well together to create a well thought out variation of the periodic table. However, we could’ve done a couple of things better. The first improvement is that we should’ve came to a decision on how to organize our periodic table quicker. We took too much time trying to think of what way we would organize the periodic table. We should’ve made our decision on that faster so that we had more time to work on everything else. The second thing we could’ve done better is making a good copy of our periodic table. Our variation of the periodic table looks a little rough because we didn’t have enough time to make a better copy. We probably could have done it if we hadn’t spent so much time deciding how we would organize our periodic table. Despite this, I think we did a very good job and created a useful variation of a periodic table that gives a new look on the elements in a different order.