New Periodic Table Activities

This week we completed two activities involving placing letters in place of elements on the periodic table to make a new one. The first one was just identifying which elements represented which letter and putting them on the blank periodic table (not including transition elements). This one was more straightforward and took a lot less time because we only needed to identify which description fit which element and put it in the corresponding position. For the second activity though, it was not based on the real periodic table and we had to place made up elements on a blank table using density, atomic trends, and its reactions with other elements. This activity took a lot longer, but it was a little fun because it was kind of like a puzzle, a very frustrating, and complicated puzzle. Although, it was difficult, it gave me a better understanding of how elements are placed on the periodic table and how atomic trends work in that regard as well.