Element rap – Student Activity
In this activity, students become familiar with the names and symbols of the chemical elements by creating a rap or poem.
Teaching and Learning Approaches
Student activities are the main feature of this collection, along with a variety of resources for teachers to use in exploring Just Elemental.
List of Teaching and Learning Approaches resource items
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Symbol find – Student Activity
In this activity, students become familiar with symbols of the chemical elements by creating them using letters from a phrase or sentence.
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Elements reacting with oxygen – Student Activity
In this activity, students investigate the reaction between copper and oxygen and watch a demonstration of the rapid reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.
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Making model alloys – Student Activity
In this activity, students use plasticine and sand to explore how adding other elements can alter the ductility of a metal.
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Radioactive decay – Student Activity
In this activity, students model the radioactive decay process for carbon-14 by flipping coins. Each coin represents a carbon-14 atom, and if it lands tails up when flipped, this indicates radioactive decay.
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Big Bang theory – Student Activity
In this activity, students gain understanding of the role the Large Hadron Collider is playing in exploring the current models for the structure of matter. It is a video clip and science article analysis activity.
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Atomic clock – Teacher Resource
Use the atomic clock to familiarise students with the names and symbols of the chemical elements.
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Red giants in the night sky – Teacher Resource
This teacher resource combines the interactive Universal element formation with computer simulations of the night sky. It deals with the location and lifecycle of red giant and super red giant stars.
