aliens activity

Aliens Activity

by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson

Aliens Activity

by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson

Aliens Introduction to

Periodicity

Your Mission

• NASA has recently found life on a nearby planet!

• These aliens have many similarities and differences and NASA is in need of a way to organize these life forms.

• Your job is to create a table to arrange these new life forms.

Getting Started

• NASA’s instructions:– Organize the aliens in a rectangular block.– Each group (vertical column) must be the same

in some way and must have some feature that changes regularly as you move down the group.

– Each period (horizontal row) must also share one thing in common and also must have one feature that changes regularly as you go across the periodic table.

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• Two of the aliens found escaped in the transportation process.

• NASA would like you to make drawings of what you believe those aliens looked like.

• They would also like you to describe the two missing aliens.

The Aliens that Escaped

The Aliens We Didn’t Find

• Describe what the next alien would look like in your periodic table.

• Also include a drawing of this alien.

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• This lab is used to introduce periodicity and trends in the periodic table.

• Students work in small groups to organize aliens into a meaningful pattern.

• Two aliens are missing and the students task is to draw pictures of the missing aliens.

• Students learn to organize information and predict patterns.

Printablecopy of

LAB

Printablecopy ofpre-LAB Teacher Notes

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