Teaching Resources

Tabla Periodica de los Elementos Químicos.
(Periodic Table of Elements)

Benito Navarro

Benito Navarro

Web Site/Portal

Medium, Advanced

Cooperative learning, Experiential learning

Fundamental Chemistry, History of Chemistry

Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School

Spanish

No

Prerequisites:
It is required that the student knows the basic knowledge of chemistry.
Does not require special additional software for functioning.

Contents:

This site puts more emphasis on the origin and historical evolution of the periodic table than in the presentation of data and properties of the elements.

We find here a historical overview of the classification of the elements, a collection of periodic tables built with various classification criteria, periodic tables in several languages ​​and some interactive activities with elements.

Aims:
- Develop and facilitate ICT-based learning activities in the context of teaching chemistry.

- Develop an appreciation of how science has contributed to the historical and cultural development of our society.

Use in classroom:

The educational materials are designed for classroom use in:

4º ESO / Physics and Chemistry
1º Bachillerato / Physics and Chemistry
2º Bachillerato / Chemistry

We can use these resources by building activities, in which students try to build different models of periodic tables in cooperative learning activities. For example, they can build a 3D periodic table and look for classification criterias. In another activities they can research when the elements were discovered, making an elements timeline or look for the name of the discoverers of the elements through history.

Points of strength:

- Plenty of contents about historical development of periodic table of elements and classification criterias.

Points of weakness:

- Not enough interactive activities.
- The website is not updated with last discoveries.
- It has some incomplete sections (spanish discoverers)

Scientific reliability:
Good

Pedagogic value:
Only for historical context of periodic table and ways to built it.

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