There are patterns going up and down and across from left to right! These patterns include the body size (skinny to fat), the number of antennae (1 to 8), the number of fingers (1 to 18), the number of arms (1 to 3), the facial expression (really sad to super happy), and the body design pattern (9 different ones). In groups of two or three, students will figure out a way to arrange 17 drawings of ‘Periodic People’ into a table that considers patterns. Your job is to arrange the sketches in a pattern so that you can draw the missing secret agent. They are part of a family of secret agents, but the most deadly of all has never been sketched. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to work with the “sketches” of the suspicious characters on the secret agent list. You have been chosen for this top secret mission. This is a hands-on inquiry-based activity for which students are introduced by an engaging prompt:
Periodic table families free#
I am providing a FREE DOWNLOAD of this resource, so be sure to scroll to the bottom to grab the freebie! Unfortunately, I have not been able to find Renee and her blog again to give her proper credit (if you do know about this blog or where the re-drawn Periodic People can be found, please leave this in the comment section below!).
Periodic table families for free#
She had them on her blog for free download. Somewhere along the way, I found the cutest set of these that had been re-drawn by an artist named Renee Kimpel. The original activity includes a perfectly useful but more simplistic version of the ‘Periodic People’ cards. This ‘Periodic People’ activity has become a favorite lesson and definitely my favorite way to introduce the concept of the Periodic Table as a table of patterns! This activity was adapted from the Oakland Schools Chemistry Resource Unit. Through college and grad school, I really did. I have created a lot of resources around the Periodic Table because as a young student I never really appreciated its usefulness. I think it’s one of the most fascinating tools in science and I love bringing it to life for my students. This sounds really nerdy but I absolutely love the Periodic Table.
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