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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Element Crossword Puzzle the Alkali Metals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you know about elements by completing this crossword puzzle! This puzzle focuses on alkali metal elements.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Element Crossword Puzzle the Halogen Group [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you know about elements by completing this crossword puzzle! This puzzle focuses on the halogen group of elements.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Element Crossword Puzzle the Noble Gases [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you know about elements by completing this crossword puzzle! This puzzle focuses on elements that are noble gases.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Element Crossword Puzzles It's a Gas [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Find out what you know about elements by completing this online crossword puzzle! This puzzle focuses on elements that are a gas.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Elements Crossword Puzzle the Alkaline Earth Metals [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you know about elements by completing this crossword puzzle! This puzzle focuses on alkaline earth metals.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Group and Periodic Properties Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe and perform experiments with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur ,and phosphorus. The discover trends down groups, across periods, and having to do with the pH of metal oxides vs. nonmetal oxides.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Berkelium

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information on berkelium, including radioisotopes and electron configurations. Includes audio content.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Calcium

For Students 9th - 10th
A very valuable site with a wealth of data on calcium, its uses and properties and some important reactions involving calcium.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Europium

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of information on europium, along with electron information and some reactions involving it.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Neodymium

For Students 9th - 10th
WebElements provides information on the basics of neodymium, including its properties and a few of its reactions.
Website
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
A very nice summary of key data on carbon, along with information of historical value and uses and applications of carbon compounds. Very helpful.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Niobium

For Students 9th - 10th
WebElements provides valuable information on niobium, including Bohr diagrams and basic data.
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Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: The Chemistry of Carbon and Silicon

For Students 9th - 10th
Deepen your understanding of the elements, carbon and silicon. Find out how and why they are related on the Periodic Table of Elements.
Website
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Welcome to General Chemistry Laboratory!

For Students 9th - 10th
Geared towards helping Dartmouth College students starting General Chemistry Laboratory, this site offers resources important for anyone in the lab. Learn why you should keep a lab notebook and how to keep yourself and others safe. This...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Atoms: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the parts of an atom, the periodic table, and molecules.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Chemistry of Life

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many chemical reactions are going on constantly inside your body. In fact, there are probably thousands of chemical reactions occurring every second in every one of...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Predicting Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on predicting chemical reactions using The Group 1 elements in the Periodic Table are known as the alkali metals. They include lithium, sodium and potassium, which all react vigorously with air and water. It provides...
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Chem Tutor

Chem Tutor: Atomic Structure: Atomic Weights and Atomic Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains many basic concepts of atomic structure. It starts with atomic mass and number and then works up to more sophisticated information on electron configuration and how each element fits into the Periodic Table.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Predicting Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the physical properties of halogens, Group 7 elements on the Periodic Table. It includes the physical properties of the elements, provides a graph showing the melting and boiling points of the halogens, and links...
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Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services

Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Chemical Fact Sheet: Neodymium

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough summary of information on neodymium, its properties and uses. Good resource for this individual element.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identifying Valence Electrons

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show presentation which demonstrates how to identify the number of valence electrons an element has based on its location on the periodic table.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Limits of Classical Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the limits associated with classical physics. Topics covered include light and heat with additional information...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Shell Model of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the properties of the atoms individually in relation to the main group elements of the Periodic Table.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Metallic Character

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show presentation describes the metallic character of elements, and explains how that changes throughout the periodic table.