Project Template & Rubric:
A template of Google Slides will be posted to Google Classroom with the directions on each slide. Use those for your project. A rubric is also attached on Classroom. Some students will have modified slides with fewer requirements.
Element Research:
Remember academic integrity!! Put information into your own words- don't just copy and paste information about your element directly onto your slides! And remember to include a link to the sources you end up using from below in the speaker notes section. And if you used the periodic table, just write "periodic table".
Websites to Use:
JLab: It's Elemental (Periodic table info, discovery/history, uses, and random interesting info. Website curated by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility which works with the US Department of Energy.)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (Useful "discovery" and general info at the top of pages, as well as the "uses and properties", "history", and "videos" sections at the bottom. Website curated by the professional association of chemists in the United Kingdom.)
Encyclopedia Britannica
Chemicool (Clear info about discovery, characteristics (physical/chemical properties described in words, not just numbers- very helpful!), uses, abundance/location. Personal website made by a chemistry professor, so has ads, but is still easy to read.)
WebElements (Lots of info about physical properties, uses, chemical bonds (a helpful list of compounds the element is in), and chemical reactions. Click on the gray "More..." and "View __ ..." buttons in each section to see additional information. Also a personal website made by a chemistry professor, so has tons of very annoyingly placed ads...)
Useful Class notes:
A template of Google Slides will be posted to Google Classroom with the directions on each slide. Use those for your project. A rubric is also attached on Classroom. Some students will have modified slides with fewer requirements.
Element Research:
Remember academic integrity!! Put information into your own words- don't just copy and paste information about your element directly onto your slides! And remember to include a link to the sources you end up using from below in the speaker notes section. And if you used the periodic table, just write "periodic table".
Websites to Use:
JLab: It's Elemental (Periodic table info, discovery/history, uses, and random interesting info. Website curated by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility which works with the US Department of Energy.)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (Useful "discovery" and general info at the top of pages, as well as the "uses and properties", "history", and "videos" sections at the bottom. Website curated by the professional association of chemists in the United Kingdom.)
Encyclopedia Britannica
Chemicool (Clear info about discovery, characteristics (physical/chemical properties described in words, not just numbers- very helpful!), uses, abundance/location. Personal website made by a chemistry professor, so has ads, but is still easy to read.)
WebElements (Lots of info about physical properties, uses, chemical bonds (a helpful list of compounds the element is in), and chemical reactions. Click on the gray "More..." and "View __ ..." buttons in each section to see additional information. Also a personal website made by a chemistry professor, so has tons of very annoyingly placed ads...)
Useful Class notes:
- Periodic Table (image of it included below)
- Periodic Table, Part 1 (reading boxes) and Periodic Table, Part 2 (groups, periods) and Metals/Nonmetals/Metalloids
- Physical Properties
- Possible physical properties of periodic table elements:
- high melting/vaporization point (solid at room temperature) or low melting/vaporization point (liquid or gas at room temperature or just at a lower temperature than most other elements)
- being malleable or brittle
- having luster or being dull
- being a conductor or insulator
- being ductile
- having high hardness or low hardness (being soft)
- having a high density (sinks below less dense) or low density (floats above more dense)
- being magnetic
- solubility (how easily it dissolves in water, alcohols, mercury, etc.)
- having a color
- having a smell or taste
- Possible physical properties of periodic table elements:
- Chemical Properties
- Possible chemical properties of periodic table elements:
- being flammable or not being flammable
- being radioactive
- being highly reactive (you will need to explain what it is reactive with... metals? oxygen? water? acids or bases? HINT: an element that is corrosive or easily corroded (tarnishing, rusting, etc.) is reactive!) or not being very reactive
- being toxic
- Possible chemical properties of periodic table elements:
- Families (especially slide 7!!!)
Superhero Design:
Our usual program (HeroMachine) is no longer working, but Marvel also has online character design programs. They use costume pieces from Marvel characters, so it's more limited, but I think you can still come up with some cool stuff. Randomized pics of equipment are below so you can get some idea of what choices are available (you can also add color- I didn't bother).
Superherotar is another fun website someone made to design an avatar-like hero character.
Our usual program (HeroMachine) is no longer working, but Marvel also has online character design programs. They use costume pieces from Marvel characters, so it's more limited, but I think you can still come up with some cool stuff. Randomized pics of equipment are below so you can get some idea of what choices are available (you can also add color- I didn't bother).
Superherotar is another fun website someone made to design an avatar-like hero character.
- Iron Man inspired (CURRENTLY NOT WORKING... SORRY. Feel free to check though... maybe they'll fix the error soon!)
- Spiderman inspired (CURRENTLY NOT WORKING... SORRY. Feel free to check though... maybe they'll fix the error soon!)
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Example Projects:
I updated some slides from the projects of former students to use as models (not all project slides are included):
I updated some slides from the projects of former students to use as models (not all project slides are included):
- Oxygenator (oxygen)
- Violet Vapor (iodine)
- F Reactor (fluorine)
- Sulfur Dude (sulfur)