Periodic Table Children’s Book/Presentation Assignment



Periodic Table Children’s Book/Presentation Assignment

Write a children’s book appropriate for a fifth or sixth grade child on the topic of the periodic table. The format of the book should include:

• Cover: The book’s cover should have the name of your topic, your name, and the class.

• Table of Contents: one or two pages long and listing the interesting stuff you put in your book.

• Basic Information: organization of the table, families and properties of the families, metals, nonmetals, metalloids, periodic table trends, atomic radius, ionic charges, ionization energy, electro-negativity, octet rule, valence electrons. (minimum 6 pages)

• “Periodic Table Fun for Kids”: design a homework assignment for your readers. Be creative.

• Glossary: Your glossary should include at least ten (10) words included in your book with appropriate definitions and pronunciation key. This is where descriptions or words like ionization energy, periods, etc. will take place. Don’t waste space on the book pages with wordy explanations of terms you can fit in the glossary. (2-4 pages)

Be sure that your project is:

• Accurate: Now is not the time to make stuff up. While creativity is appreciated, don’t lose points supplying incorrect information.

• Neatly done: It doesn’t need to be done on the computer, however, hand written books need to be written neatly with clear printing. White out is a BAD thing. If you make a mistake on a page, start over!

• Correctly spelled: One point will be deducted per misspelled word. If you are not sure about the spelling look it up, or use spell check.

• Colorful and Creative: but not distractingly so.

• On time: There will be a 10 point deduction per day late.

• Age appropriate: Remember this is for 5-6th grade students!

Periodic Table Children’s Book/Presentation Assignment

Rubric:

| |Pts |Pts |Description |

| |Earned |Possible | |

|*Purpose | | |Book is appropriate for 5th grade students. |

|*Organization | |2 |A clever title on the cover of your book. |

| | |2 |Your name on the cover of your book. |

| | |2 |Table of contents |

|*Idea Development | |5 |How was the original periodic table organized and how does it compare |

| | | |to today’s version? |

| | |20 |Include a discussion of metals, nonmetals, & metalloids. Include major |

| | | |properties of the 3 regions. Include a diagram or picture showing the 3|

| | | |regions |

| | |10 |Discuss the families and their important properties. Diagrams or |

| | | |pictures possibly used to illustrate where they are located. |

| | |10 |List some of the properties and common uses of some of the most |

| | | |important elements in each group. |

| | |5 |What are valence electrons and why are they important? |

| | |2 |How do we determine the number of valence electrons an element has? |

| | |5 |What is the Octet rule? And how does it relate to how “active” and |

| | | |element is? |

| | |2 |How can we use valence electrons and the octet rule to predict the |

| | | |charge and element will obtain? |

| | |10 |How is the radius of an element determined, and what tends to happen to|

| | | |the size of an atom as we go across a period and then as we go down a |

| | | |group on the periodic table? |

| | |10 |What is ionization energy, how does it relate to the charge on an ion, |

| | | |and what tends to happen to this energy as we go across a period, and |

| | | |as we go down a group on the periodic table? |

| | |10 |What is electronegativity, how does it affect a chemical bond, and what|

| | | |tends to happen to this property as we go across a period, and as we go|

| | | |down a group on the periodic table? |

| | |5 |Picture of the Periodic Table |

| | |10 |Glossary of a minimum of ten words in your book |

|*Outcome | |20 |Colorful and Creative |

| | |20 |Presentation |

|*Language | | |Book and Presentation contains no grammar or spelling errors |

| | |150 |PERIODIC TABLE CHILDREN’S BOOK |

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