LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Classroom » Lesson Plans

Narrow your search

Resources tagged with chemistry and periodic table are also tagged with these keywords. Select one to narrow your search or to find interdisciplinary resources.

Discovering elements online
Students will work independently and in small groups to research assigned elements on the internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made available for students to again work independently and in pairs to answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills and Science)
By Trish Loudermilt.
Periodic table
This lesson provides knowledge about periodic law, groups and periods. Students will be able to identify and label each group with their names. Students will be able to relate atomic number and atomic masses of different elements of periodic table. Students will also be able to discuss periodicity of different properties of elements.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Development and Science)
By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.
Periodic table database
These lessons are designed to help students use their computer skills to create their own database using teacher directions, and they also learn how to read the periodic table and understand what it means.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Information Skills, and Science)
By Florence B. Winslow.
What element would you be?
In Why does chemistry matter in my life?, page 3
In this lesson plan, students write a one-page story relating their personalities to elements from the periodic table.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Lisa Hibler.
Why does chemistry matter in my life?
This series of high school chemistry lesson plans addresses questions about the relevance of chemistry in everyday life.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)