Thursday 7th January - What small DFW things will you do today?

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allydowd wrote: »

You really must try a game of Castle Mendeleev. You explore the 18-room castle where each room in entirely made of one of the elements in the first three rows of the periodic table and you have to guess which element is in each room from the clues. (Link)

And remember three, or was it four, new elements are being added to the table this year and there is, as always, a sort of competition to decide on the new names for them. (Link) They are usually names after famous people but you could get you wee one to write a submission outlining why your surname should be chosen to represent the element. I propose "Baileysium".

The Royal Society of Chemistry website has videos and podcasts for every one of the elements too. And there is a link to the Table and art on there too. Someone has designed a logo for each element too, based on its properties. You could try this. The artwork is here (Link) and click on Visual. eg Beryllium is used in gears and cogs particularly in the aviation industry so the logo is a cog in front of a grey fusilage.

You could go in search of the elements with the aid of the RSC page and see how many you can find. Sodium will be found easily at home...and Silicon...and there's a good excuse to explore Helium...Uranium you'll probably find harder to source locally. :rotfl:

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

BB - Ally has some fantastic ideas there. I don't know how old your kids are but there's a fantastic periodic table colouring book that I often use with lower set year 8. If you're doing periodic table, that leads on nicely to the differences between elements and compounds and chemical reactions They're all a bit linked.
I have a worksheet I often use called Cartoon Elements, where you find the symbol for the elements listed and get the names of various cartoon characters. And if you want any of the stuff I use at school (for any of the sciences actually) then just send me a pm and I'll send whatever I can help with.

Thank you both for your fantastic ideas and links. My children are aged 10 and 6 but working in such good ratios of adult to children means we can tackle somethings at a higher and or deeper level also we can be studying the same thing on 2 levels easily (well most of the time), I can also tailor our learning if one of us is distracted/tired/unwell I can delay or shorten it equally if everyone if fully engaged we can extend a session or topic. Ds has the ability, interest and vocabulary to read higher than his age by some way.
A couple of years ago we read the first 2 books Simon Mayo's series Itch about an element hunter, this year we will reread them along with the third book in the series, I have found some resources to follow on from this so we will be able to do some of our English whilst concentrating on our main subject.