Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Trends
Given descriptions, scenarios, or groups/series of elements, students will use the Periodic Table to relate the size of the atomic radii, electronegativity, and ionization energy of elements to their position on the chart. Students will...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Trends in the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate specific properties that can be predicted by an element's position on the periodic table. Additionally, they will look at the formation of ions,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will sse the Periodic Table to identify and explain the properties of chemical families, including alkali metals, alkaline...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Periodic Table
An interactive website where students learn about the basics of an atom, periodic tables organization, and the structure and properties of matter. Module includes an introduction and five lessons that are followed by a quiz and an...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: The Periodic Table
Get a quick overview of the Periodic Table of Elements basics.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: The Periodic Table of Elements
Click an element on the Periodic Table of Elements to learn more information such as the history and uses, origin of the name, isotope data, and more essential facts!
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Periodic Table App
In this activity, explore the periodicity of the periodic table with the Periodic Table App.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: The Illustrated Periodic Table
Interactive concept animation shows the atomic number, weight, and structure of the first eleven elements of the Periodic Table of Elements.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Metalloids in the Periodic Table
Discusses the history and organization of the periodic table, where the metalloids fit in, and their properties. Includes color-coded periodic table of elements.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Periodic Table
Learn the basics of the Periodic Table including how the Periodic Table is organized and how to make sense of the information included in the table. Test your understanding with an interactive quiz at the end of the activity.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Atoms, Elements and the Periodic Table: The Atomic Model [Pdf]
A slideshow looking at the contributions of scientists over time to our understanding of atomic theory. Looks at models of the atom developed by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick, as...
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham: Periodic Table of Videos
A collection of videos exploring the elements of the Periodic Table, presented by professors, lecturers, scientists, technicians, and others at the University of Nottingham. Videos contain stories, personal experiences, fun facts,...
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: The Periodic Table Faq
Explore the answers to several commonly asked questions about the periodic table. Find out why the first elements on the table are unusual and identify who Lothar Meyer is.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: What Does the Periodic Table Tell Us About the Elements?
The elements in Group 7 of the Periodic Table are called the halogens. They include chlorine, bromine and iodine. Learn about their properties and uses, then take a quiz.
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: The Periodic Table
This is a teacher's companion guide with lesson plans for the periodic table. It includes learning objectives, lecture notes, links to related sites, answers to frequently asked questions, and a glossary of related terms.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Periodic Table and the Universe
Students will apply the atomic number of elements on the periodic table to the origin of heavy elements in the star cycle.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Atoms and the Periodic Table
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a list of related topics (in hyperlink format) on the atom and the Periodic Table of elements. Topics from light, particles, and waves to the Bohr model, quantum...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Periodic Table, Electron Shells, and Orbitals
The Bohr model and atomic orbitals. Using an element's position in the periodic table to predict its properties, electron configuration, and reactivity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Periodic Table of the Elements Essay
This essay, written for Teachers' Domain, describes the foresight and pattern recognition that Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev used to develop the modern periodic table of elements.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: The Periodic Table of Data
An interactive Periodic Table of Elements which also serves as a visual database of each element's physical and thermochemical properties. Online activities include virtual graphing, tables of data, energy level diagrams, games, and more.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental: Sulfur
This online resource is for information on the 16th element of the Periodic Table--Sulfur--can be found here. The site lists scientific information such as atomic weight, atomic number, melting/boiling point, and more. There is also a...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: The Periodic Table & Energy Level Models
Find out how energy level models are represented on the Periodic Table of Elements.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Periodic Table Families
Given descriptions or specific element groups, students will use a Periodic Table to relate properties of chemical families to position on the table.