Before class preparation

• Video: The history of the periodic table (5 minutes)
• Finish Card Sort: Bohr-Rutherford Diagrams

In class activity

• Lesson: Periodic Table Patterns
  • Explain the relationship between the atomic structure of an element and the position of that element in the periodic table
• Worksheets: Periodic Table 1, Periodic Table 2

After class work

• Edpuzzle: The Genius of Mendeleev
• Interesting Videos:
  • Crash Course: Periodic Table (11 minutes)
  • Rubber Bands around a watermelon, like more protons/electrons making the atom smaller