Aliens Activity by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson Aliens Introduction to Periodicity Your Mission • NASA has recently found life on a nearby planet! • These aliens have many similarities and differences and NASA is in need of a way to organize these life forms. • Your job is to create a table to arrange these new life forms. Getting Started • NASA’s instructions: – Organize the aliens in a rectangular block. – Each group (vertical column) must be the same in some way and must have some feature that changes regularly as you move down the group. – Each period (horizontal row) must also share one thing in common and also must have one feature that changes regularly as you go across the periodic table. period g r o u p The Aliens We Didn’t Find • Describe what the next alien would look like in your periodic table. • Also include a drawing of this alien. 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 X 1 2 3 4 5 5 Y Period __ & Group __ Period __ & Group __ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 Answer Key 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 Lab Answer Key Developed by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson Aliens "A" Developed by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson Aliens "B"