CHEMISTRY A starter/plenary that will complement work on Elements and/or The Periodic Table

CHEMISTRY This is an alternative to a wordsearch that will allow pupils to examine and search the Periodic Table in a structured way.This is an alternative to a wordsearch that will allow pupils to examine and search the Periodic Table in a structured way. Quite simply, they have to find and name all elements in the table, but only using the letters from the word Chemistry.Quite simply, they have to find and name all elements in the table, but only using the letters from the word Chemistry. The letters can be arranged in any order e.g. Sc or Cs or Tm or MtThe letters can be arranged in any order e.g. Sc or Cs or Tm or Mt The following 2 slides contain all the elements you will find in a GCSE Periodic table.The following 2 slides contain all the elements you will find in a GCSE Periodic table.

Chemistry 1.C – Carbon 2.Ce - Cerium 3.Cm – Curium 4.Cs – Caesium 5.Cr – Chromium 6.H – Hydrogen 7.He – Helium 8.Hs - Hassium 9.Es – Einsteinium 10.Er – Erbium 11.Mt – Meitnerium 12.I – Iodine 13.Ir – Iridium

CHEMISTRY 14.S – Sulphur 15.Sc – Scandium 16.Se – Selenium 17.Sm – Samarium 18.Si – Silicon 19.Sr – Strontium 20.Tc – Technecium 21.Te - Tellerium 22.Th - Thorium 23.Ti – Titanium 24.Tm - Thulium 25.Rh – Rhodium 26.Re – Rhenium 27.Y -Yytrium

Chemistry This activity goes down well when prefaced by Tom Lehrer’s This activity goes down well when prefaced by Tom Lehrer’s Element Song (there is a nice flash version at which has both the song and the lyrics)