Hot glue gun to attach laminated charts to each folder.Paper clip to hold the two game folders together.No doubt it was a devoted parent and/or educator, wanting to make school a little more fun for children! I should have done it years ago … they would have just grown up knowing why I abbreviate water all the time! Searching Google now brings up multiple sites, so I honestly don’t know who deserves credit for the original idea. Most kids love a good game, though, so I don’t know why I’ve waited so long. With my oldest now in high school, I figured I’d better get on it. Over the years my kids and I have dabbled with chemistry here and there, but I hadn’t made them memorize the periodic table … yet. My kiddos were still quite young I kinda filed it on the back burner in my brain. Several years ago, I ran across the idea of turning the periodic table into a Battleship-style game. So how do we take this seemingly mind-boggling chart -that simply has to be memorized -and make it fun for our kiddos? #Periodic table chemistry board game codeMany charts go a little further and color code the rows and groups as well. Elements with common properties are listed in the same column or group, and the elements with the same number of electrons are in the same row or period. The periodic table is helpful because it takes all of the known elements and arranges them in rows and groups, left to right, according to their atomic number. Should one tinker with that and change the numbers of the protons, it would no longer be hydrogen. Take hydrogen from our water formula above for example, hydrogen, charted as H 1 is simply made from atoms containing one proton and one electron. Science defines an element as a substance completely made from one type of atom. So what exactly is an element, and how is the chart useful to us today? H 2O isn’t just a quick way to jot down a term for water. Of course, at the time, there were only 56 entries on the table -whereas currently, we know of 118 elements. On this day in 1863, a chemist named John Newlands created and published the first known table of elements. National Periodic Table Day lands annually on February 7 th.
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