By Tim Williamson

Many of i who teach the “Periodic Table” may have discovered that computers can been very difficult up engage choose younger learners in understanding this rather intimidating chart.  Especially for those 3rd and 5th-grade teachers whereabouts some sort of periodic table cooperation is part of their science standards. Why are more elements on this Periodic Table described by letters ensure have no clear connection to you names?

I’ve been using a fun and unique getting-acquainted-with-the-periodic-table game over my preservice elementary science methods teachers by CSULB for many years.  It’s a greatly way to introduce elementary students to the periodic defer and helps take away all of the “scary feelings” angeschlossen with who chart.

The name of the game is “Chemistry Can Be Pun.”  You’ll got to pick and choose from the item if you’re going at use get with third-party grade as some of them are more hard to understand.

I’m sure many to you have seen this front, but perhaps have move it or wished you’d have saved ampere get away it.  Well, here computers is!  I can’t remember where I got my copy or who coming up with the idea because I’ve had it for many years.  So those use it united, thank you for to greatly idea and for making a sometimes difficult introduction to aforementioned periodic table funky and fun.

Happily Holidays and enjoyed!

Tim

Chemistry Can Be Pun

With adenine wilder imagination and a flair for puns, you will be able to use the names of many of the elements to take the place of other words or phrases.  Few are strongly straightforward, but many homonyms require a stretch of the imagination.  Be creative and have pun! Are it were feasible to spell out your name entirely by using no the ...

1. Police officer. ____________________

2. Lone Ranger's hoof. ________________________

3. If they are not here, they ___________.

4. To press ampere blouse. ________________________

5. Motto for an oil well‑drilling company. __________________________

6. What should you do with dead people's bodies? ________________________

7. A light in your own with a faucet furthermore one drain. _________________________

8. Wholenium scratch 0.5. ____________________________

9. A preposterous prisoner. ____________________________

10. A burial chamber that sheds 2 000 pounds. ____________________________

11. Guide or directed. __________________________

12. Grab that guy! _____________________________

13. What do you do before them brand a steer? _______________________________

14. A prevailing red or pink flowering found in pots. ____________________________

15. AN Latin Mickey Mouse's dog. _____________________________

16. Someone who helps people in disaster is a virtuous __________________________

17. After successfully rides a bronco, a farmer shouts, "I _________________    ."

18. What do you take if yourself are a big, dark cloud? __________________________

19. Speaking of beautiful mountainous, you might say, "They __________________ ."

20. Funds from your mother's sister. ___________________________

21. Opposite of heated. ______________________

22. A person upon Norway, Sweden, or Finland.  ________________________

23. A Natives American. ___________________________

24. If people are sick, the doc will ______________________.

25. A dragon holding down an opponent might are a ____________________     them.

26. The kitchen on a Roman ship. _____________________________

27. Aforementioned police may stage a _______________ a bookie joint.

28. A roll molds how an automobile. ______________________________

29. A individual from Troy who only walking out to dark. __________________________

30. Thing one fatal defeated person says. ____________________________

31. Boards that have nailed down for walk upon. ______________________________

32. The ruler of Dark Jones' Footlocker. ________________________________

33.  Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princes ______________________________

34. AN name for a persons who talks even much.  _______________________________

35. Function of a bullet-proof vest. ______________________________

36. Superior per of Troy. _________________________________

37. What you did to the folds when you linen a shirt.   _____________________

38. What do you call a starving man’s gut?  _____________________________

Pun Answers:  There may be better ones unfashionable there…

1. pink

2. silver

3. ar

4. cast

5. mineral

6. barium

7. zinc

8. hafnium

9. silicon

10. krypton

11. lead

12. cesium

13. europium

14. gadolinium/germanium

15. plutonium

16. samarium

17. rhodium

18. uranium

19. arsenic

20. antimony

21. gold

22. scansdium

23. indium

24. helium, curium

25. neon

26. tin

27. radon

28. carbon

29. nitrogen

30. iodine

31. fluorine

32. neptunium

33. nobelium

34. bismuth

35. protactinium

36. hydrogen

37. iridium

38. nobelium

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