Periodic
Table Links
Los Alamos National Labs Periodic Table gives information for each element’s history, sources, compounds, uses and isotopes. Additional site material includes how to use the periodic table, chemistry basics, how new elements are named, and Mendeleev's original periodic table.
Web Elements Periodic Table lists each element's history, compounds it forms, uses, physical data, and nuclear data.
Visual Elements Periodic Table includes animations, electronic postcards, screen savers and desktop patterns to download
Periodic Table of Comic Books features the elements as they appeared in comic books.
Poetic Periodic Table offers thematic poems for the elements.
Modeling the Periodic Table is a simulation activity. It asks students to consider the work Mendeleev and construct his model from scratch.
Mrs. Gibson's Periodic Table Adventure presents basic chemistry concepts and activities appropriate for eighth-graders. In addition to quizzes and a creative-writing activity, students can research an element and write a commercial to sell it.
Tom Lehrer’s Periodic Table set to song! A song written in 1959 that lists the elements of the periodic table to a “vaguely familiar tune.” A MUST for all lovers of chemisty! Choose either “dial up” or “broadband” at the bottom of the screen. Then sit back and enjoy.
Many of the sites listed above were reviewed
by Joyce Kasman Valenza in tech.life@school in the Philadelphia Inquirer on
updated 1/10/09