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Report & Highlights from March-2019 Entries of “Element of the Month (Mar-2019) for *IYPT-2019(HK) {The 6th month}

.. &..< Notes about Coming “ Apr-2019 EOTM*” ... AND... OTHER IYPT-activities >

* IYPT= “International Year of Periodic Table [pic]

( 國際週期表年 ) ....... * EOTM = “Element of the Month” (“月度元素”)

>> Organized by the Hong Kong Association of Science and Maths Education (From Oct-2018 to Apr-2019) for ALL Hong Kong Secondary Schools. Only ONE month left. If your students have NOT tried, encourage them to work on at least ONE – may be that’s the ONLY chance that they would participate in an meaningful International Celebration! This event has been officially registered at the

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Only 1 Month Left (Apr) –-> Grasp your chance & Lift Off!!!

(((.... also note the OTHER IYPT activities in this Report! (((

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The "International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019)" has been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO in 2017 as it is being considered as “A Common Language for Science” since its discovery by Dimitry Mendeleev in 1869. 2019 happens to be the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table and deserves a year of celebration. It is one of the most significant achievements in science, capturing the essence not only of chemistry, but also of physics and biology. (…… from )

2019 has slipped 3 months already. MORE and MORE IYPT-activities are being organized by different organizations round the World. You could go for a look and ENCOURAGE your colleagues and students to participate in some global events or to modify some for your LOCAL celebration (in school, class, clubs, lessons.... ). Afterall, your colleagues and students could benefit even if they pay a little effort in the global or local events while taking up their learning at different stages (especially in F.1 Science [Matter] or in F.3 [Chemistry or Science]).

Check for more updates at and some suggested items have been included at the END of this Report.

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Report on “Element of the Month March-2019” for IYPT-2019(HK) Competition

… details of the competition could be found at >Chem> EOTM [ “Element of the Month” ]

This is the sixth monthly entry of the EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK) competition and we have already ploughing through 2019 – which have the “International Year of Periodic Table” being boiled up with the official opening at the UN Headquarters in Paris (Jan-2019). The simultaneous celebration and memory of the 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev’s periodic law and IUPAC-100 has already stirred up many creative ideas and activities around the World [see reference at end] – including our EOTM for IYPT2019(HK)!

As expected, the number of entries for March has increased after the holiday- and exam-season with more junior form participants (even F.1 and F.2) PLUS a slight increase in the number of participating schools. Also, the overall standard of presentation remains high with some special presentation formats and creative articles. With the improved highlighted hint in the “Submission Form”, the selected data and reason(s) for choosing the element for the MONTH (March this time) are more closely linked. This again shows that the means of communicating our knowledge with respect to different sectors is just limited by our imagination with in-depth research. Of course, the more and more awarded articles may give insights to teachers and students in shaping their forth-coming EOTM-products. Hence, with the support from the sponsorship, awards more than the planned one had been issued again in this EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK)March-entry. As for “reason(s) of choosing the element for March”, it is quite surprised that the number of “no reasons” has increased this Month. While others could relate this “non-special month” (there is no public holidays in March-2019) to many other meanings – either of their OWN encounters or other international celebrations – e.g. celebrating “Spring”, “Women’s day”, “Earth Day” (environmental), “events occur in March – {discovery, promotion, birth, St. Patrick’s Day, ... } ”, .... – revealing that students could subsume other meanings in their academic studies and the context which is a real divergent thinking exercise. Contextual Learning could be a powerful tool for all of us, not just igniting students’ dormant mind but also push that to different levels and perspectives --> SEE what teachers and students could bring up in their APRIL-entries >.

All March-2019 entries have been finalized and the results are presented in the table below. For overall comments and highlights of the March-entries, please check the section after the results table. IF your students have NOT tried this, the information could help them to draft their EOTM-articles for the LAST April competition! Another means to HELP your students to draft their articles for this competition is a “parameter reference table” related to the Awards of the EOTM for IYPT2019(HK) [please check details in the ending sections]. We would like to take this chance to thanks all teachers’ and students’ support – without which this competition could not work at all. Thus, all other participants will receive a certificate of participation with a souvenir card [sample at end]. All data about this EOTM-IYPT2019(HK) competition will be compiled after April-2019 and be presented in a historical report to the International IYPT-2019. This means that their names will appear in the “Hall of fame” for the IYPT2019(HK) in the Report. The report (or part of it) will also be published in the 2019 Hong Kong Science Teachers’ Journal. { Regulations of this competition could be found at }

Results of “Element of the Month MARCH-2019 for IYPT-2019(HK) ” ….

|Award |Student (Level) |School |Element presented (Title^^) |

|Best presentation |Chen Siqi (F3) |HKCCCU Logos Academy |珍惜你, Helium |

|Outstanding award(#) |Chau Karena Hei Lam (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Element Profile (Po) [Marie Curie – Woman |

| | | |Scientist ....] |

|Outstanding award |Tang Cheuk Man (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Come Follow Hafnium’s IG account |

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|Merit 1(#) award |Ho Yee Ching Sophie (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Female: The Iron Lady |

|Merit 1 award |Chan Hoi Lim Charlotte (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Germanium |

|Merit 1 award |Ha Duy Linh (F2) |Delia Memorial School (Hip Wo) |Helium – father of all elements |

|Merit 1 award |Ye Hui Yi (F4) |YCH Lan Chi Pat Memorial Secondary|流感高峰無有怕 “銅”你殺菌話咁 |

| | |School | |

|Merit 1 award |Lam Yan Yi (F5) |POCA Wong Siu Ching Secondary |The profile of element 47: Silver |

| | |School | |

|Merit 1 award |Wong Ching Yi (F3) |Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Sec. School |Gold: an element which is related to an |

| | | |event in March (St. Patrick Day) |

|Merit 1 award |Lee Jasper Yee Jing (F4) |St. Paul’s College |Marching into the World of Carbon: From |

| | | |Atoms to Stars |

|Merit 1 award |Lau Wing Hang (F3) |HKCCCU Logos Academy |我鑀您，爸爸愛因斯坦 |

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|Merit 2(#) award |Chiu Man Ho (F4) |Stewards Pooi Kei College |Caesium |

|Merit 2 award |Hau Chin Man (F3) |St. Paul’s Secondary School |Breaking News: Doctor K is saving us! |

|Merit 2 award |Hui Shu Wing Janice (F3) |St. Paul’s Convent School |Miss Nobium’s self-introduction |

|Merit 2 award |Yau Yeuk Laam (F2) |HKCCCU Logos Academy |Let them eat Cake |

|Merit 2 award |Lee Ka Ying (F3) |Buddhist Tai Hung College |Phosphorus – important minerals in our food |

|Merit 2 award |Tsang Yuen (F3) |Buddhist Tai Hung College |Beryllium – an essential element for robotic|

| | | |century |

|Merit 2 award |Au Yeung Yat Hong (F4) |POCA Wong Siu Ching Secondary |The Champion of 118 elements: GOLD |

| | |School | |

|Merit 2 award |Wong Lai Sum (F4) |POCA Wong Siu Ching Secondary |Technetium |

| | |School | |

|Merit 2 award |Law Sai Pong (F4) |POCA Wong Siu Ching Secondary |Multipurpose Element in 118 – Indium |

| | |School | |

|Merit 2 award |Cheng Tsz Hin (F4) |POCA Wong Siu Ching Secondary |Here comes the King of 118 elements: Carbon |

| | |School | |

|Merit 2 award |Chan Miu Yu (F6) |St. Peter’s Secondary School |"碳"為觀止 |

|Merit 2 award |Shum Fai Yiu (F3) |Ho Fung College |A Chemistry all to itself – carbon |

|Merit 2 award |Kan Cheuk Kwan (F5) |St. Rose of Lima's College |Ironic Iron |

|Merit 2 award |Helen Chan (F5) |St. Rose of Lima's College |Copper everywhere – that Cu on the spot |

|Merit 2 award |Huang Junning (F3) |Ho Fung College |Element Portfolio: Ga |

|Merit 2 award |Parson Cheng (F4) |Concordia Lutheran School (N.P.) |既成大器，亦成毒＿鉛 |

| |Katherine Chan (F2) |Our Lady’s College |The Lady’s Kingdom Mystery – Beryllium |

|Merit 2 award |Yeung Fung Yuen (F5) |TWGHs Lee Ching Dea Memorial |宇宙中最常見的化學元素——氫（H） |

| | |College | |

|Merit 2 award |Yam Ching (F3) |CCC Heep Woh College |Self-introduction of Carbon |

|Merit 2 award |Puk Yee Kiu (F3) |CCC Heep Woh College |A talk with Mrs. Mercury |

|Notes: | |

|(#) |>> Due to the high standard in the overall presentations, with the support of the sponsors, the number of merit |

| |awards have been raised. The merit awards are expanded with 2 levels – “Merit 1” will have a higher honour than |

| |“Merit 2”. |

| |>> The Best article will be posted in relevant link at . |

|(^^) About “Title” of the |-- Some titles in the above table have been bold and highlighted. They are examples of brilliant ideas and some |

|articles & Insights to |with inspired creative HEADINGS to draw our attention about links between the study of the Periodicity and |

|Teachers for planning further |Applications with this EOTM & IYPT aims. Students and teachers should check the major essence of the IYPT-2019 when|

|related activities |drafting their articles in coming EOTM (still have Feb to Apr). Teachers may also have insights about how we could|

| |introduce elements and periodicity to students in our lessons and / or coming activities. |

| |-->> Also, in order that students could have more focused parameters in drafting their articles for this EOTM |

| |competition, a “parameter reference table” related to the Awards is included in the LAST Section of this Report. |

| |-->> Further, an overall Final Grand Report (after Apr-2019 entry) will be concluded with your students’ |

| |contribution and effort in making this International Celebration of IYPT a success. |

Congratulations to all award winners and thanks all teachers and students in supporting the event. The “Element of March for IYPT-2019(HK)” would thus be “Helium”.

As the activity is to encourage all teachers and students to participate in this meaningful and historical global celebration, all other participants will also have “Certificates of Participation” and their names will appear in the Final overall Report of IYPT-2019(HK) in the Association Journal (to be published in Aug/Sep-2019). The situation will be similar to the grand global celebration in IYC-2011 (IYC = International Year of Chemistry) in Hong Kong and around the World ().

The HKASME organizes this “Element of the Month for IYPT-2019(HK)” competition for Secondary School students for 7 months (from Oct-2018 to Apr-2019) is to catalyze and celebrate the IYPT-2019 in Hong Kong. We hope all participants could continue their sharing and have their zeal for scientific exploration continue to grow strong. Here comes the LAST CHANCE for this EOTM: Due date for the next Apr2019-entry is 3/4/2019 -- ONLY 1 month left! Encourage your students to take part in this remarkable and historical global scene and they could have their footprint stamped in their life portfolio.

>> More Updates -- from the IYPT-2019 .... ==> Check the Events ...

Hence, you and your students are encouraged to discover everything about IYPT2019 via the official website () and join the global celebrations! Stepping into 2019, more and more institutes have their IYPT-activities posted on the official website: Events Our EOTM-IYPT activity has also been registered. Though most local activities are limited to their academics and students, we could always learn from others and have similar activities drafted in our schools or communities. You are also reminded that you could initiate IYPT activities in your class, school or community to enrich and enhance your students’ learning horizon from local to global context. Please check the following channels for updates and changes. Such events might also fit in your School’s STEM plans with interdisciplinary ideas.

IYPT2019 ; IYPT2019 ; IYPT2019

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Highlights from March-2019 Entries of EOTM for IYPT-2019(HK) ….. Though most had given reason(s) for the chosen element (and some are quite good), it is surprised that some had NOT included those reasons in their presentation ==> WHY the element serves to be the “Element of March” ?! ** Clearly, you won’t just search for the facts of elements and copy them only!

Comparing with other months that have special festive celebrations, this may be difficult for March as there is NO public holiday this year. Yet, some students could find many other reasons for celebrating March with different features of their chosen elements. Most would relate that to the “8th of March as the Woman’s Day”. A few mentioned about the environmental act – “Earth Hour” in March to alert people of the importance of using less energy and be natural. Some related the proposal and / or discovery of the periodic table or predicted elements to March. Spring is also a stage signifying the start of things. Others also used “3” as the link for their chosen element article. All the above showed that you would eventually find some links if you reach out for a wider scope and wide your perspectives from all walks of your life.

Of course, some still could not enrich their drafts to the reason(s) that they have stated in the submission form. That’s quite unfortunate as some reason(s) are quite good and triggering. If they could handle that more seriously, they could get the award easily.

Afterall, this is NOT a simple “searching exercise” about properties of elements, but stick to the theme and essence that the Periodic Law could affect us in all walks of life. So, think about what the coming month “Apr-EOTM-2019” mean for you and / or science and have your chosen element fixed and try again. We are waiting for your brilliant ideas in the course of scientific endeavour -- AND this is the LAST months to go!

A-3/ About presentation --> More varieties had been given in this month’s presentation. With the endless ways of presenting your ideas as exemplified by the past 6 months’ work – e.g. “dialogue”, “portfolio”, “news report”, “calendar events”, “cartoon”, “blogs”, “contrasting links”, “peotic”, “IG”, “Watermark as background”....; there seemed no way to stop you all from expanding the 2D space into different layered levels. Anyway, the limit of such formats is your imagination with your deeper thoughts in linking the elements with our daily life and scientific research. Though the competition comes to the LAST resort, we still could like to encourage you all keep on trying different ways to present your brilliant ideas – especially those related to applications and sustainability.

Teachers could really gain insights from such GOOD students’ presentations and enhance our way of presenting the instructional materials in our forth coming activities!

However, two extremes in the presentation format that may not be a good means. One extreme is a batch of words without paragraphs or columns or sections. The other extreme is just a simple list of facts or properties. Students should learn to have multiple perspectives of thinking and relating different parameters with the given context.

(A-4) Parameter reference table concurred from the past presentations for Students’ and Teachers’ reference to draft their articles in the coming EOTM and / or other learning activities in their life. One may consider the design of the article with the following Level objectives (5 being the top one) and the related award scheme. Of course, there is no upper limit to the performance as students’ creativity and communication skills is borderless and their presentation format could be an integrated product – depending on their skills and meaning subsumed in their articles.

|Level |Item(s) involved |

|(5) |+ (2) + (3) + (4) plus effective presentation formats with meaningful items / identities |

|(4) |+ (2) + (3) plus a sound and attractive “TITLE” |

|(3) |+ (2) plus suitable presentation strategies and formats (e.g. news, letter, peotic style, ....) |

|(2) |Plus links to clarified context (The Month) – e.g. festival, personal meanings, ... |

|(1) |Selected properties / features of the CHOSEN element |

|Award Level |Remarks |

|Outstanding |Items in all levels |

|Merits |Items in Level 1 to 4 |

|Participation |Items in Level 1 to 3 |

B) Some statistics from the March-2019 entries – this will be cumulated and be presented in an overall report in our Teachers’ Journal in 2019.

(B-1) Participants’ study level – F.3 and below (39%), F.4 (33%), F.5 (27%), F.6 (1%)

This competition has no limit to the level of participants because we believe that all F.1 to F.6 students could have the chance of presenting their ideas and they could learn on a needed base once they grasp the principle of the periodic system. Similar to the last month, there is a significant % of increase in the lower forms. This is surely due to the fact that most F6 students are preparing for their DSE. And, for lower form students, they may begin to touch on the study of materials related to elements and hence, the periodic table. All we need is to introduce the beauty of the Periodic Table and the periodic law as a useful tool for scientific studies which has sustained the long years of applications since 1869. As for how that could utilize elements to raise our standard of living in the material and spiritual world is up to the users – we all humans with the help of continuous scientific research in different areas of applications. And, some lower form articles are much better presented than the higher forms!

(B-2) Entries without “Title” = 24% …. Still quite a difficult issue for students and teachers?

Also, about 12% just use the element name as title. This leaves room for teachers to encourage students to think a step further in their learning with elements other than just fact-finding and retrieving. The updated 3D framework for K-12 Science Education (promoted by the NSTA) has emphasized “cross-cutting” as one of the dimension of learning. The push of students to think deeper into the drafting of the title for their article design could help them to think divergently and correlate their learning with all different sectors of knowledge. You may like to show the titles to your students in the “Awards Table” and let them think or imagine how could those be derived at.

In this March entries, there are some good titles even though their contents are less well presented and hence NOT included in the Awards table above. Below are some that may trigger your thoughts in the coming entry:

■ Carbon --- the most generous element

■ Oxygen Odyssey

■ Study Review Warning: Top Secret File of arsenic

■ Interview with Aluminium

■ Arrogant Argon

■ Mercury poisonous for eternity

■ Mendeleev’s Mendelevium

■ A mischievour sprite of element – Nickel

■ The toxic silver droplet

■ A smelly bomb

(B-3) Entries without reason = 12% …. This is quite surprised as the updated “Submission Form” has changed the “reason column” from just “reason(s) for choosing the element” to “reason(s) for choosing the element FOR March”. Anyway, other than finding a meaningful element to draft on; the more interesting aspect of this competition is to encourage students to think about ONE element that is peculiar to them with some remarkable reasons – linked to the theme of IYPT and “the month”.

(B-4) Language presentation: 13% in Chinese …. This does not mean that Chinese presentation would be subordinate to those English. And, eventually we have another picked article that won the Best presentation for this month in Chinese.

(B-5) Chosen Elements:

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| Another IYPT-2019(HK) activity will be announced in May / June to complete the celebration and providing the students and teachers a chance to |

|exercise their own. Preliminary, the activity will be a once off competition with written tasks related to the study of the Periodic Table which|

|will be across the School Year from 2018-19 to 2019-20. That is, the preparation work would be in 2018-19 (Around June) and the submission date|

|will be around Oct / Nov in School Year 2019-2020. |

|Just wait for a while and check our announcement in May/June-2019. See you then. |

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Awaiting your further brilliant ideas for the April-entries for the EOTM-IYPT-2019(HK)!

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Celebrations of the IYPT in other parts of the World ...

Other than relying on the official webpage , you could also use the common Google to search for IYPT-2019 chemistry actitities around the World. More and more organizations have joined in the run and some have summarized the activities under different categories. This may help students in learning science (not just chemistry) as the human link or personal touch with the exploration of so many different elements around us should be exciting and rewarding. Below are lists of iconic categories from the

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For more events around the World – please go to

The Hong Kong event “Element of the Month” is also registered on this official site of IYPT. You could also register your IYPT events at the above site!!!

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