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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2008  > April  >
In the Classroom
Periodic Table Target: A Game That Introduces the Biological Significance of Chemical Element Periodicity
Richard S. Sevcik, Ragan L. McGinty, and Linda D. Schultz
Department of Chemistry, Geosciences, and Environmental Science, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX 76402

Susan V. Alexander
Comanche High School, Comanche, TX 76442

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April 2008
Vol. 85 No. 4
p. 516
Abstract
Periodic Table Target, a game for middle school or high school students, familiarizes students with the form of the periodic table and the biological significance of different elements. The Periodic Table Target game board is constructed as a class project, and the game is played to reinforce the content. Students are assigned several elements that they must classify by biological activity (as opposed to more traditional family names); they record their findings and those of the class on a blank data chart. Students then label appropriately colored felt squares, glue them onto the correct position on a previously prepared outline of the periodic table, and play the game. Students may also color paper periodic tables as a class exercise for their own future reference. The project allows students to observe correlations between chemistry and biology and serves as a reference for later, more conventional study of periodic properties of the elements and their placement on the periodic table.
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Student handouts: An element table for students to annotate; Student instructions and game rules; Example scorecard. Instructor notes: Detailed instructions for construction of the periodic table game board; Instructor's key for the element table
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Sevcik, Richard S.; McGinty, Ragan L.; Schultz, Linda D.; Alexander, Susan V. J. Chem. Educ. 2008, 85, 516.
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Keywords
Biochemistry; Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; Elementary / Middle School Science; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Humor / Puzzles / Games; Inorganic Chemistry; Nutrition; Periodicity / Periodic Table
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2/26/2008
3/5/2008
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