Path to the Periodic table
In class we completed an activity called the Periodic Quest. For this activity we were required to work in pairs and "make" the periodic table by organizing the elements in a way that made sense to us. We started with one set of elements and had to organize those. My partner and I placed them according to their atomic mass, least to greatest. We then got a second set of elements and had to incorporate those into our chart. Once we added the second set, we repeated the same process with a third set. My partner and I kept our original organization with the atomic mass but at the end we thought about if there was a way we could organize it better. We then decided to try organizing it by atomic mass and also properties. And it made a lot more sense in our opinion and was a lot easier!