The 7th grade is creating a periodic table out of every day objects. The purpose of this project is to come up with a way to organize objects into groups based on similar characteristics.
Students will create a table that looks like the periodic table with 8 families (columns) and 4 (7.1) or 5 (7.2) periods (rows). They are skipping the transition elements. Each family should have some characteristic in common and change as you go down the column in some way. The change should be consistent in each family.
For example, the periodic table of colors could be organized by different colors in each family and could get darker from the top to the bottom. However, hydrogen should be different from the other elements in the same column because hydrogen is not truly in the same family.
Each family should have a name based on the characteristics of that family and the project should include a key. The key should explain what each family has in common and how the family changes as you go down the periodic table.
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