Periodic Table Directory

Chemistry Standards
Periodic Table Syllabus
Lectures

Lecture 1: Atomic Structure
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Lecture 2: Elements & the Periodic Table
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Lecture 3: Periodic Table Summary
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Take Home Exam

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Cover Sheet 2002

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Web Resources
A detailed, clickable periodic table, with sounds and animations
http://www.webelements.com/
Learn about the periodic table's origins
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_table/index.html
Play a game about the periodic table
http://www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html
Detailed information about many aspects of the elements
http://www.chemtutor.com/perich.htm
Learn the elements and their chemical symbols with these interactive games
http://www.quia.com/jg/3.html
Illustrated facts about many elements
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/elements/class.htm
Detailed information about metalloids. You can select other element
groups from a list on the left of the screen
http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/metalloids.html
Detailed information about non-metals. You can select other element groups
from a list on the left of the screen
http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/nonmetals.html
Interactive, online lesson about the elements
http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippex/module_3/elements.html
Look at the colour-coded groups of metals in the periodic table,
then scroll down to find information about their properties
http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippex/module_3/elements.html
A comprehensive dictionary of metal terminology
http://www.metal-mart.com/dictlist.htm
Explore the industrial trails on this Web site for information about the
history of industry and machines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/dibnah/dibnah99/trails.shtml
General information about copper, including its history and uses.
You can also discover how it is mined and treated
http://www.copper.org/general/homepage.htm
Click on "Smiles Central", then "Kids Care" and then "Eggsperiment"
for an activity that shows how fluoride protects teeth (using any fluoride toothpaste)
http://www.crestsmiles.com/index_flash.html
Lots of information about chlorine, including history, chemistry and uses
http://www.c3.org/
Discover the difference between halogen light bulbs and normal light bulbs
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question151.htm
For detailed information about each halogen, click on their symbols
(F, Cl, Br, I, and At) in the periodic table
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html
Click on "Rock Files" for information about ten main metals mined in Australia
http://www.minerals.org.au/pages/page3_15.asp
Information about how metals are extracted from their ores
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Chemistry/Industrial/c00107b.html
Learn many fascinating facts about gold
http://www.goldinstitute.org/
Detailed information about aluminium
http://www.alfed.org.uk/aluminium.htm
A comprehensive definition of minerals
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0833286.html
An A-Z guide to the Earth's minerals
http://www.minerals.net/mineral/index.htm
Find out how to identify and collect minerals, or grow your own crystals
http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/index.html
A Web site that sells minerals - but you can look at the pictures for free
http://www.themineralvug.com/
Lots of information on rocks and minerals, with questions to test yourself
http://master.ph.utexas.edu/Vicki/studW.htm
Find out how fireworks are made, then play the "Name that Boom" game
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/0007/fireworks/blast1.html
Useful information about metals and their properties
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Chemistry/Materials/c00142c.html
All kinds of interesting and useful information about fireworks
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?
tname=5717&cid=2&url=5717/
Basic facts about many common metals
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=
J002744&url=J002744/adlm-mtls.html