This Periodic Table of Elements Unit includes structured lessons, worksheets, and assessments designed to help students understand how the periodic table is organized and how to use it to identify element properties.

Materials are organized to support clear lesson flow and can be taught over multiple class periods as an introduction to the periodic table or as a review before chemical bonding and reactions.

Students will learn:

• What elements are
• Chemical symbols
• Who Dimitri Mendeleev was
• What the periodic table of elements is
• How to navigate the periodic table
• Periods, Groups, and Families of the periodic table
• Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals

This periodic table of elements unit includes:

• BONUS file: Daily Lesson Plans: These plans include all materials linked for easy planning of your periodic table of elements 14 day unit.
• Teacher presentation and student fill in notes: The perfect way to start your unit! Students will take notes as you introduce essential information related to the periodic table of elements. Students can keep the notes in their science notebooks to reference throughout the unit.
• Science reading comprehension activities to give your students information about the concepts pertaining to this unit. These can be used in class to introduce or review learning. Each activity includes short readings and checkpoint comprehension questions to assess understanding.
  • Readings include:
    • What are elements?
    • What are simple substances?
    • What is the periodic table?
    • Metals
    • Nonmetals and gasses

• Scavenger Hunt Students will practice finding elements on the periodic table by looking them up using knowledge of periods and groups, atomic numbers, and mass.
• Holiday Review Activities
• Periodic Table Choice Assignments: Students can choose from nine assignments to demonstrate their knowledge of how to read and use the organized table, find elements, and explain their learning.
• Poster Project students will research and create their element tile
• Getting to Know You Activity: Great for back to school or as an introduction to the unit. Create a periodic table bulletin board with the finished product.
• Print and digital options
• Answer key

How to use this unit in your science classroom:

• Getting to know you activity: Use this as a back to school activity or a way to kick off your unit. As students finish, hang up to create a periodic table bulletin board.
• Teacher presentation: Introduce the topic to your students using the teacher presentation and student notes activity. This will give students background knowledge, allow them to ask questions, and have notes to reference throughout the unit and before an assessment.
• Science texts: These can be used to reinforce learning or as independent assignments. Need sub plans or homework? These can be easily assigned to cover either one.
• Scavenger hunt: This activity allows students to become familiar with the periodic table of elements. They will learn where periods and groups are and how to search for elements.
• Choice assignments: Have students complete 3 of 9 or assign specific ones. This activity allows students to become more familiar with the topic.
• Review activities: More review is included to allow struggling students to really learn and understand the unit.
• Project: Use this as an assessment for the unit. A rubric is included!

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Aligns with NGSS:

MS-PS1-1 — Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

MS-PS1-3 — Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

This unit includes instructional lessons, practice worksheets, projects, and optional enrichment activities to support flexible teaching and review.

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