explanation

 

My partner and I organized our new periodic table by making two big  hexagon shapes and make little parallelogram shapes inside of the two hexagons. we arranged the elements on our new periodic table by putting the metals and the non-metals in the same hexagon, but separated them by making them different colours, the metals are orange and the non-metals are yellow. We also separated the families on the first hexagon, so the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals are orange since they’re metals, and the halogens and the noble gases are yellow because theyre non-metals.

 

another way we arranged them is, we put the Transition metals/basic metals in a different hexagon, coloured them all blue and went in order of atomic number. and also we put the hydrogen element separate from all the other elements in a triangle shape in the second hexagon paper.

 

the 6 D’s

Define and Discover:

We are trying to think about ways to make a new periodic table that would be more visually appealing ,people having  better understanding of it, and just re-creating it and making it look more creative and colourful.

• what could we change up without messing up and still having people understand it?
• what should be kept the same for sure?
• how many patterns, shapes, and colours will we use?

 

Dream:

 

What information does the periodic table tell you?

the periodic table tells us about the different families, the number of protons, atomic number, atomic mass, neutrons and electrons in each element, as well as the ionic charges of each element. it also tells us about how each element is either solid, liquid, gases, non-metals, and metals.

How could you arrange It differently based on its chemical and physical reaction?

• we could arrange them by their atomic numbers highest to lowest
• we could arrange it by putting them in order of their families
• we could arrange them by their ionic charges negative to positive
• we could arrange it by separating the metals and non-metals

 

what different shapes could be used?

• could have the metals in one shape and the non-metals a different shape
• we could have the same shape for the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals and a different shape for the halogens and the noble gases

 

 

How can you use colour?

• we could colour the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals the same and colour the halogens and the noble gases different

 

• we could use the same colour for the metals and a different colour for the non metals
• we could colour is based on its atomic mass

 

Design:

What is your plan?

our plan is to make two hexagons, divide the first one into half an arrange it by splitting the metals and the non-metals, having a different colour for metals and a different colour for non-metals. put the names of the families beside the elements, put the transition metals in the second hexagon, colour them blue and putting them in order by their atomic numbers.

 

Deliver:

My partner and I organized our new periodic table by making two big  hexagon shapes and made little parallelogram shapes inside of the two hexagons. we arranged the elements on our new periodic table by putting the metals and the non-metals in the same hexagon, but separated them by making them different colours, the metals are orange and the non-metals are yellow. We also separated the families on the first hexagon, so the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals are orange since they’re metals, and the halogens and the noble gases are yellow because theyre non-metals.

 

another way we arranged them is, we put the Transition metals/basic metals in a different hexagon, coloured them all blue and went in order of atomic number. and also we put the hydrogen element separate from all the other elements in a triangle shape in the second hexagon paper.

 

Debrief:

there are many ways we could’ve improved our plan, but one of the biggest improvements we could’ve made was probably using our time wisely. we spent way too much time thinking about planning the whole thing instead of just committing into starting it and so now our whole project is overdue and we’ve had to rush it and get it done so we were stressed and not relaxed at all while doing this last minute.

another way we could’ve improved our plan would be doing the final copy better. it did take us a long time doing it last minute, but we still could’ve done a better job on the final copy. but overall i’m very proud of what we created and how we actually committed into doing this even though it was very last minute work and stressful for the both of us.