Name: _______________________________
Period: _______
Periodic Table Challenge
Guidelines:
1. You may choose any combination of activities.
2. Your goal is 100 points.
3. You may be as creative as you like within the guidelines listed below.
a. See complete directions of the back side of this sheet.
4. You must show your plan to your teacher on Monday Oct. 29, with parent
initials.
5. Turn in this paper as your cover sheet for all activities completed.
6. All assignments are due on November 27 & 28, 2012: the
day you have science!!
Plan to
do
Activities to complete
Make a crossword puzzle with at least 20 significant vocabulary words about the
periodic table.
Complete another student’s crossword puzzle
Draw a comic strip that shows how the periodic table has changed over time. (Be
sure to include significant scientists.)
Make a mobile showing the families of the periodic table and three properties of
each.
Make a periodic table board game.
Explain in a 1-2 page essay how you think the periodic table could change in the
next 50 years. Include a drawing of how it might be different.
Choose five elements whose symbols do not directly match their element’s name.
Create a set of five trading cards for these elements that includes why their symbols
are obvious.
Create a song or a rap to help you remember the families and their properties.
Create a product of your choice that shows the families of the periodic table and at
least 5 characteristics of each.
Choose your favorite family in the periodic table and create a family scrapbook.
Include properties of the family as well as individual elements.
Create Three Facts and a Fib for the arrangement of the periodic table.
You have been given an unknown element. Create an instruction card that would
explain how to determine the family.
Write a children’s book about the periodic table and its families.
Structure of the Atom: create a typed worksheet for your classmates, that helps
them review the structure of the atom. (Include the answer sheet.)
Design a folded quiz book that discusses the properties of atoms, elements, and
compounds.
Create a collage with at least 10 examples of elements and compounds that we find
in our daily lives. (Include the scientific and common name, graphics and use.)
Points
Possible
25
10
25
20
30
25
20
25
20
20
20
25
30
20
15
10
I am planning to complete ____ activities that could earn up to a total of _________ points.
Parent Signature: ________________________
Teacher Initial: ________________________________
Student Signature: _______________________