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Activity Periodic Table

This document provides instructions for an activity where students will spell out their name using chemical element symbols from the periodic table. Students are asked to create a poster showing the element symbols that spell their name, along with boxes providing details on each element such as its atomic number, mass, physical properties, uses, and discovery information. Examples of the required element details and poster layout are provided. A rubric is also included for grading the completed posters.

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Activity Periodic Table

This document provides instructions for an activity where students will spell out their name using chemical element symbols from the periodic table. Students are asked to create a poster showing the element symbols that spell their name, along with boxes providing details on each element such as its atomic number, mass, physical properties, uses, and discovery information. Examples of the required element details and poster layout are provided. A rubric is also included for grading the completed posters.

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Name: ______________________

Writing Your Name using Chemical Element Symbols

Objective
In this activity, you will use your creativity to spell your name (first or middle name and
your last name) using chemical symbols of elements on the periodic table. For example,
you can spell Yvonne using the symbols for yttrium (Y), vanadium (V), oxygen (O),
nitrogen (N), and neon (Ne).

Materials
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Colored pencils
• Markers
• 8.5 x 11 or larger sheets of copier paper
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Charged iPad

Procedure
Your poster must include:
• The chemical element symbols used to spell your name (first or middle name and
last name).
o If your name has the letter J, use J and the information for Iodine (J was the
former symbol for Iodine).
o If you are only using the first letter of a two-lettered symbol, still include the
second letter, but fade the letter so it does not appear that it is used in the
spelling (see example at the end of the activity).
• Box drawings of the symbols as they appear in the Periodic Table of the Elements
(including atomic number, atomic mass, symbol, and element’s name).
• The following information for at least four of the elements you use (typed and
emailed to Mrs. McDonald as a pdf to pmcdonald@sjhsknights.com):
o Physical description of the element: metal, nonmetal, or metalloid; solid,
liquid, or gas at room temperature, or synthetic.
o Group number and row number where the element is located in the periodic
table.
o At least two chemical and physical properties of the element.
o The description of at least two common uses of the element.
o When was the element discovered and who discovered it.
• Each element’s box should be at least 5.4 cm wide and 6 cm tall on the poster.
• The poster should be organized neatly and created in color.

Useful websites:
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/periodic-chart.htm
http://www.webelements.com
http://chemicalelements.com/
http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/
http://www.iupac.org/fileadmin/user_upload/news/IUPAC_Periodic_Table-
8Jan16.pdf

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Example
For example, if your name is Yvonne Wilson, you could write it using the elements Y, V, O,
N, Ne, W, I, Li (notice that the i from the Li symbol is shaded grey since it is not part of
the spelling), S, O, and N. Notice that the sizes and shapes of the boxes are different
from the instructions given above, in order to fit the space available below

39 23 8 7 10
Y V O N Ne
ytrium vanadium oxygen nitrogen neon
88.91 50.94 15.99 14.01 20.18

74 53 3 16 8 7
W I Li S O N
tungsten iodine lithium sulfur oxygen nitrogen
183.8 126.9 6.938 32.05 15.99 14.01

Rubric
• Element Name (1 point)
• Atomic Number (1 point)
• Atomic Symbol (1 point)
• Atomic Mass (1 point)
• Physical descriptions: metal, non-metal, metalloid, density, physical state at room
temperature (2 points)
• Uses (at least 2 common uses) (2 points)
• Group, row (2 points)
• At least two chemical or physical properties of the element (2 points)
• Neatness, spelling, color, creativity (3 points)
• List of sources of information (books, websites, magazines, etc. (can be pasted to
the back of poster (4 points)
• Year discovered and discoverer (4 points)
• Your name and date (on back of poster) (4 points)

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