Through an online slideshow format, learn about the chemistry behind Period 3 on the Periodic Table of Elements. The last slide has questions for students.

Get a quick overview of the Periodic Table of Elements basics.

Discusses the history and organization of the periodic table, where the metalloids fit in, and their properties. Includes color-coded periodic table of elements.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the history of the periodic table, and explain how the periodic table was originally organized, compared to the arrangement of the modern periodic...

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...

Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site focuses specifically on the Periodic Table of Elements with information on the table's organization methods along with...

Explore the periodic table like never before! This downloadable program module for students comes absolutely complete with teacher modules, student assessments, PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, historical text readings and more. Students...

A description of the arrangement of elements on The Periodic Table based on electron configuration.

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Element number 118 still has the temporary name ununoctium and it is the final element on the current periodic table. [2:50]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Protactinium is element number 91 on the periodic table. [7:06]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Americium is element 95 on the periodic table. [7:40]

The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. In this one, the professor explains why erbium is perhaps the most important element for websites like YouTube. [5:35]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about tellurium, an element used more often in laser optics than any other in the chemical industry.

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about calcium. Professor Poliakoff thinks calcium is a very British element. [8:56]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about radium, a famous element. [2:22]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Dubnium seems to be an element no-one knows much about. [0:45]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about bohrium. This video includes footage from a trip to Darmstadt where the element was created and named. [4:16]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Element 116 has been given the name livermorium. [6:31]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Hafnium, with the symbol Hf, is element number 72. [0:49]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about arsenic- element number 33 and is famous for the toxicity of its compounds. [2:28]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Because of its radioactivity and short half-life, astatine is an element few chemists come into contact with. [0:34]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This video is on silver, a famous metal used since ancient times to make currency and jewelry. [9:23]

The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about polonium. [2:02]

The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. What better way to talk about Ytterbium than by doing it from the very place it was discovered - Ytterby in Sweden! [3:36]