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Electronegativities of Elements

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this elements worksheet, students use a table showing the electronegativity values of elements to characterize compounds as ionic or covalent. This worksheet has 14 fill in the blank questions.
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Chemistry Review

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this chemistry review worksheet, students identify chemical changes, isotopes, ions, and chemical bonds. This worksheet has 32 multiple choice questions.
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The Nature of Salt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers record information from the periodic table for sodium and chloride. They determine whether salts are molecular or ionic compounds, along with sodium chloride's molecular weight, and relative weights
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Jeopardy

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Here you will find 5 categories regarding atoms, the periodic table, and the elements.  The questions in this jeopardy game are about bonding, ions, oxidation number, and energy levels.
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The Periodic Table

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Compliment your lesson with this periodic table presentation. The slides are clear summarizing the origins and main details of the periodic table very nicely.  The overall appearance, images, and bullet points are logical and some nice...
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The Periodic Table Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th
First, beginning chemists assemble a large periodic table of elements. Then, they play a game in which they roll dice, move a marker along the elements, and collect pennies according to the number of valence electrons of the element that...
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Basic Periodic Table of the Elements

For Teachers 5th - 12th
This basic, black-and-white printable is a copy of the periodic table of elements. It includes the standard element name, symbol, atomic number, and atomic weight. Across the bottom is an explanation that says for elements without stable...
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NOVA Elements

For Students 5th - 12th
It's like a periodic table variety show! When the plethora of periodic table apps becomes ho-hum, this one may revive interest.
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Building Atoms, Ions, and Isotopes HD

For Students 7th - 12th
Atomic theory, a periodic table, and a place to practice making atom models without having to draw every proton, neutron, electron, and orbital! This resource is colorful, visually pleasing, and easy to use. 
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The Noble Gases

For Teachers 8th - 12th
When breaking down the details of the periodic table of elements, this presentation will explain special characteristics for each of the noble gases. The annotations are quite elementary, so this can easily be used in an introductory...
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Sample Midyear Examination (Chemistry and Biology)

For Students 7th - 12th
A 12-page midterm exam sample can be given to young scientists in preparation for an exam. This particular installment is geared toward a class that delves into both ecology and chemistry concepts. There is no way to separate the 50...
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How Can You Tell One Clear Gas From Another?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders perform experiments to determine the identity of an unknown gas sample. In this chemistry lesson, 5th graders fill balloons with air, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide. They use mass and reactivity to identify the gases.
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Periodic Webquest

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the periodic table of elements. Using given websites, 6th graders explore the history of the periodic table and its design. Students role play, writing a journal entry, as if they were the author of the periodic table.
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Organizing the Elements

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the periodic table and discover why the elements in the table are organized the way they are through research. Students infer information about the elements and the relationships among them that leads to their...
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Countdown Challenge

For Students 5th - 7th
In this countdown challenge worksheet, students find the 10 common elements from the human body, earth's crust, and ancient times and color code them. Students fill the atomic number of the elements in a given periodic table.
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Conserving Chemical Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars balance chemical equations and solve for gram to mole ratios.
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The Periodic Table of Elements

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
In this chemistry worksheet, students examine the periodic table of elements and use the data in other laboratory assignments.
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The Periodic Table

For Teachers 8th - 9th
These slides introduce the basics of the Periodic Table structure and the history and reasoning behind its organization. A useful chart on the fifth page gives the main properties and differences between metals, non-metals and...
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States of Matter

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners study the states of matter. In this matter lesson, students use dry ice to study the states of matter. Learners observe and answer questions based on the material.
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The Periodic Table

For Teachers 8th
The slides are nicely designed in this presentation about metals, metallic bonding and the difference between the properties of the main groups of elements found on the Periodic Table. This presentation focuses on the metal, and...
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Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Explanations of shell structure in an atom and the decisions that affect periodic table organization are discussed here. Students view well organized charts to list and compare elements that are placed in different sections of the...
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Classifying Elements

For Teachers 7th - 10th
You can detail the important terms in element classification through this useful resource. This presentation describes individual elements, and details characteristics, and general facts that can make them easier to group.
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Anagrams

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemistry instructional activity, students complete a crossword puzzle by rearranging 13 anagrams about elements. They create their own anagrams from 3 given words.
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The Structure of Matter and the Chemical Elements

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students answer 73 fill in the blanks and multiple choice questions on the structure of matter and properties of elements in the periodic table.