Aliens Activity
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Aliens Activity by John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson
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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.
period
group
• 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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5 Period __ & Group __
• 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.
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