Periodic Table with Videos

[Alan Walker]

www.periodicvideos.com

This site has a feast of classroom fun that I certainly wish I had had the chance to watch when I was in science lessons at school.

The periodic table is one of those cumbersome things that you just have to learn if you want to do well at science. But how can you get enthusiastic about a bunch of letters laid out in a grid?

The answer could be a site that academics at the University of Nottingham have put together. It has a video explanation, including cool scientific experiments for each of the chemical elements in the periodic table.

Far from being boring, these guys make learning about science look fun.

[LisaD]

Very cool. I was so excited that I submitted it to Planet. (But then I saw you submitted too!)

So I combined the two together and made it live. Hope you don't mind!

Here's the link!

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConResource.16068

Lisa

[Margaret Allen]

How about this to supplement it... http://privatehand.com/flash/elements.html [clap][clap][clap]

Listen for Promethium.....

[LisaD]

It had a devil tail! I wonder why!

Did you submit this yet, Margaret? If not, I'll do it.

My daughter's learning the periodic table right now. I should get her up :eek: to show her the song... but you know how teenagers are...if MOM thinks it's cool, she most certainly will not! Hmm...how to make her think it's HER idea!

Lisa

[saha]

Here is another super periodic table video. I cannot even express how powerful this resource is in class for teaching this concept. Again it is a British production. I have used this in my class for the last 3 years with great success.

Lisa , teaching science through music is very effective. Have you considered talking to the music/band teacher of your daughter's school and have the teacher integrate that in his class with cooperation from the science teacher?

http://www.teachers.tv/video/3518

In this programme, we use the periodic table to explore some of these elements and discover why some are more reactive than others.

Science teacher Subathra Subramaniam visits Portobello Road market in London and learns why gold, silver and copper are ideal for making jewellery.

She also examines the highly reactive alkali metals, which are found in group one of the periodic table. She looks at their characteristic, reactions and uses.

Finally, Subathra explores halogens, a collection of non-metals found in group seven of the periodic table, that display their own qualities and trends.

Elsewhere, Professor Holloway of Leicester University, demonstrates how nasty and reactive the non-metal fluorine can be.

He shows how each of the halogens reacts with hydrogen and explains how there are a number of good uses for this type of element.