Periodic Tabular Array Of Mistakes Dry Out Erase Activity

Earlier this week, 1 of the scientific discipline teachers I follow on Twitter retweeted an activeness posted past times AACT.  The activeness was called The Periodic Table of Mistakes.  At kickoff glance, it looks similar a regular periodic table, but at that topographic point are genuinely 25 mistakes hidden within the table.    

I right clicked on the icon together with selected "Open Image inwards New Tab" together with thence I could zoom inwards together with endeavour to spot the 25 mistakes embedded inwards the periodic table.  Seeing Omg together with JK on the tabular array made me giggle, together with I knew that I had to detect a agency to purpose this activeness alongside my physical scientific discipline students.  My physical scientific discipline students did basic chemical scientific discipline kickoff semester together with basic physics 2nd semester, together with thence it's been a piece since nosotros did anything alongside the periodic table.

Next calendar week is the final calendar week of the schoolhouse year, together with thence lately we've been only doing a hodgepodge of activities since students lead maintain been gone for every possible number nether the sun.

 

I took the icon together with placed it inwards an eleven x 17 Publisher file that I exported every bit a PDF.  Then, I printed the file on about 11 x 17 bill of fare stock (affiliate link).  This jumbo sized cardstock is a lifesaver inwards the classroom.  I purpose it all the fourth dimension for reusable, group-sized activities inwards conjunction alongside my 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets that I ordered from Amazon.

When my students came to class, I had them dissever into v groups since I had printed v periodic tables.  Each grouping was instructed to view a dry out erase marking together with a dry out erase bag alongside the periodic tabular array of mistakes inside.  I told each grouping that at that topographic point were 25 mistakes hidden inwards this periodic tabular array together with it was their labor to detect them.

They began to eagerly search for their interactive notebooks that held their re-create of the periodic table.  When I informed them that at that topographic point were no references allowed, they moaned together with groaned.  They insisted that they wouldn't live on able to detect whatever of the mistakes on their own.  I ignored their pleas together with instructed them to learn to work.

There were presently excited squeals together with giggles coming from the groups every bit they constitute diverse mistakes.  I instructed them to circle each error every bit they constitute them.  A prize was offered to the squad that identified the close mistakes correctly.

After v to 10 minutes, I had the students stop.  I used the answer fundamental provided past times AACT to learn over each of the 25 mistakes.  They seat stars past times the mistakes they had identified correctly.  If I recall correctly, the winning grouping constitute xviii of the 25 mistakes.

My students didn't intend that the mistakes that involved changing the atomic majority were really fair at all.  None of them noticed whatever of those.

This activeness tin live on downloaded from AACT here.

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