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Development of the Periodic Table

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Purpose

The purpose of this station is to understand the structure of the Periodic Table and the arrangement of

elements. You will also identify the trends that present due to the arrangement of the elements on the

Periodic Table.

Before you Begin…

Check to see that all the items are present and organized according to the Station Information Sheet. If

you notice a problem, notify the teacher immediately.

Materials

Periodic Table

Envelope containing Periodic Pieces

Periodic Table Challenge Page

Station Information sheet

Student Pages

Interactive Notebook

Vis-à-vis marker

Envelope containing Periodic Table Challenge

Pieces

Activities and Questions

Essential Questions

When Mendeleev arranged the elements into a chart he used similar chemical and physical properties.

How does the modern Periodic Table demonstrate the law of periodicity? If you were to organize a

group of compounds, how would you use these principles to develop a chart?

Discuss the essential questions with your teammate(s) and record your answer in your Interactive

Notebook.

Using the provided charts, correctly label the following using the provided labels and arrows. Cut out the

provided periodic table and glue into your interactive notebook. Sketch your results in your Interactive

Notebook.

Alkali Metals

Alkali Earth Metals

Nonmetals

Transition Metals

Halogens

Noble Gases

Increasing Electronegativity

Increasing Atomic Radii

Increasing Ionization

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Questions: Record your response in your Interactive Notebook.

1. What are the characteristics of a metal?

2. What are the characteristics of nonmetals?

3. List the metalloids and their characteristics

Correctly place the following elements on the periodic table, and use your periodic table to answer the

questions that follow.

Potassium

Strontium

Barium

Carbon

Oxygen

Nitrogen

Hydrogen

Calcium

Sulfur

Chlorine

Bromine

Neon

Krypton

Fluorine

Iodine

Questions: Record your response in your Interactive Notebook.

4. Which elements are in the same family as Magnesium and what type of elements are they?

5. Which elements are in the same family as Helium and what type of elements are they?

6. Which elements are in the same family as Iodine and what type of elements are they?

7. List the given elements in row 2 according to increasing electronegativity.

8. List the given elements in row 4 according to decreasing atomic radii.

9. Explain the property of the atoms in a given row and column that causes the trend in electronegativity.

10. List the 7 diatomic elements.

11. Now that you have completed these questions, return to the essential question. How would you modify

or change your answer?

Periodic Table Challenge

Use the following periodic trend clues to place the elements in their proper places in the short form of the

periodic table provided. Use the Periodic Table Challenge card and the letters in the Periodic Table Challenge

envelope or use a Vis-à-vis marker to write the letters in the proper place. Make sure you erase all marks from

the chart when you have completed the activity. Glue the Periodic Table Challenge page cut out earlier into

your interactive Notebook. Record your data in your Interactive Notebook.

A. Has one of the highest electronegativities on the table

B. Has one electron in a 3p orbital

C. Has five electrons in the fourth energy level

D. Forms the smallest 2+ ion

E. Tends to gain one electron

F. Electron configuration is 1s22s22p63s23p3

G. Is the most electronegative element

H. An ion of this element with a 2+ charge has 18 electrons

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I. Its second ionization energy is large compared to its first ionization energy

J. Its highest occupied energy level is full

K. This nonmetal is likely to form an ion with a 3- charge

L. Has the highest first ionization energy in the table

M. Has the smallest atomic radius in the third period

N. Is the smallest atom in its group

O. The first element with an electron in the second energy level

P. The only nonmetal in a group with highly reactive metals

Q. Has eight fewer protons than its “groupmate” H

R. The most likely element of the one included to lose an electron

S. A metalloid in period 4

T. Its ionic radius is larger than its atomic radius

U. The ion with a 2- charge that it forms has 18 electrons

V. Atomic number is 34

W. Metalloid that forms an ion with a 3+ charge

X. Has characteristics of both a metal and a nonmetal

Y. Has a lower first ionization energy that is higher than T but lower than M

Questions: Record your response in your Interactive Notebook.

1. Which elemental clues contain sufficient information to place the element, using no other information?

2. Excluding elements identified by your answer to Question 1, for which clues could you identify a group based

solely on an individual clue?

3. Which elements were you able to place based on elctronegativity?

4. Which of the following properties increase from top to bottom within a group? Give reasons.

a. first ionization energy

b. electronegativity

c. atomic radius

I Need to Remember …

Complete this part after class discussion of this station.

I need to remember …

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Cut this page in half and glue into your Interactive Notebook where appropriate.

Periodic Table Challenge: Using the clues in the Experimental Procedure, place the letter of each element in its

place on the following short form of the periodic table.

1A 2A 3A 4A 5A 6A 7A 8A