Excellent Ideas!

This article offers several excellent ideas for innovative ways to teach the periodic table. Using cross-curricular activities like writing silly stories, writing jokes, and coming up with ... See More

This article offers several excellent ideas for innovative ways to teach the periodic table. Using cross-curricular activities like writing silly stories, writing jokes, and coming up with creative license plate name that all include element names, students will truly enjoy learning the names and symbols of the elements. The author also includes examples of student work, the student activity sheet, and a grading rubric. This is a great article and I cannot wait to start using these activities in my classroom!

Very clever way to get students to think

The author presents two ways to encourage students to think about element symbols and build on prior knowlege. She suggests having them create license plates using element symbols and riddle... See More

The author presents two ways to encourage students to think about element symbols and build on prior knowlege. She suggests having them create license plates using element symbols and riddles where puns based on the names of the elements. Both require students to use higher order thinking skills and that leads to more thought than mere memorization.