Your Journey has begun !

Follow the Elements

Start with Hydrogen/Atomic Number 1

      Comic Strip 

     You will begin your journey by following the instructions and going to each element in order of atomic number.  Be sure to read the directions carefully and download any worksheets that are necessary for the activity.

   First Visit              Second Visit                Third Visit        

               Fourth Visit                   Fifth Visit

First Visit

       Get a worksheet from your teacher.

             Learn about Matter          

                     All about Atoms 

                          Take the online Matter Quiz

    After you do these items, it is time to go back to your desk.

Second Visit

     Look at some other periodic table designs and read some history about the periodic table.  Don't forget to listen to The Element song by Tom Leher

   After you do this, it is time to go back to your desk.

Third Visit                                             
  

        Play some game and learn some more.

                                 (click on the game you want, not on the icon this time)

                      Element Concentration                   Element Flash Cards  

                  Element Hangman                       Element Matching Game 

                                          Element math Game 

Take the Periodic Table Challenge

               Your teacher will give you a downloaded copy of two different paper games from the Jefferson Lab classroom resource page:  Element Bingo and Element Word Search for you to do at your desk after you finish here.

Fourth Visit      

        Get a worksheet from your teacher to fill out as you enter the next phase of your trip.  

        As you visit each site start writing down information on the elements you visit.  You will notice that there are already nine elements listed.  You are to fill in the information for these nine and pick five more that you would like to find out about.

     List the name of the element, chemical symbol, atomic number, atomic mass, and other information on the element's chemical properties such as boiling and melting points.  Be sure that you do a good job!  You will use this later to do your project, so be thorough.

 Go visit different periodic tables:                                          

  It's Elemental. 

              The Pictorial Periodic Table from Phoenix College

Chemicool Periodic Table from MIT 

Periodic Tables from Illinois State Geological Survey

YOGI's Periodic Table from Alaska

HyperChemistry's Periodic Table

Periodic Prism Table

 Customized Printable Periodic Tables by Kostas Tsigaridis

          Download your own periodic table from the 

Jefferson web site

(You will use this periodic table on your Posttest/Final, so don't loose it!)

Fifth Visit                              

        Comic Strip                      

     Find out about comic strip heroes and how they display chemical properties.  Visit this site:            

                Comic Strip Periodic Table from the University of Kentucky

     It is time to go back to your desk and design your own comic strip using two of the elements that you have researched.  Be sure to follow the element's chemical properties/characteristics.  You can design any type of comic strip you wish such as a  fantasy or an adventure using your elements as the heroes/heroines or just a character that displays their chemical properties in the strip somehow.   This comic strip is your creation!

Last Revised:  06/28/01