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Hi Ian,
I found an article in the learning Center where a teacher had students use cereal boxes to create a Periodic Table and understand periodicity. It also mentions making one using paint chip samples. I am wondering if you could do a 'take off' on that, where you would use a Halloween theme. Bring in gobs of symbols having to do with Halloween: kinds of Halloween candy (Unopened, of course), pictures of various black cats, witches' hats, spooky ghosts and goblins, freaky characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde, etc., You would want enough items to create several rows and columns of a Halloween Periodic Table. The class might work in groups to see which group can come up with a 'logical-looking' periodic table. You could set up a few rules like there has to be at least 5 rows and 5 columns; The element names have to have one- two- or three-letter symbols that make sense. The rules have to make sense for placing elements in their specific 'families' or 'groups',etc.
The students would be engaging in a creative activity that would also be helping them to understand periodicity.
I might try this myself!
Carolyn
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