I found an activity today that I’m planning for next week. We’re beginning our study of elements and the periodic table. So I turned to the ever trusty Google and typed in “periodic table activities.” This simple search brought up several great results and one in particular caught my eye. The element windsock is going to be a fun way to find out some basic information on common elements. We’ll be using the same basic idea given on that website, but we’ll also be adding an everyday object that hangs from the center of the windsock.
For example, the windsock for aluminum may have a piece of foil hanging down surrounded by tails with information on them such as atomic mass, number of protons/neutrons/electrons, etc. We’ll be hanging them from the ceiling to liven up the room with some student produced work. There’s already plenty of that on the walls, but I’ve yet to venture to the ceiling for displaying work. I mentioned this activity to the students today before class ended and they were already planning where they wanted to hang their windsock.
It’s little things like this that I get excited about and make me look forward to the start of a new week. I’ll get some pictures of our creations and post a follow up to this once they’re all completed.
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