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The document is a periodic table webquest that provides instructions to visit various websites and answer questions about the periodic table. It covers major contributors to the development of the periodic table like Lavoisier, Dalton, and Mendeleyev. It also asks questions about the organization and structure of the periodic table, including periods, groups, atomic orbitals, and properties of different families of elements like alkali metals, halogens, and noble gases.

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Web Quest - Periodic Table MS

The document is a periodic table webquest that provides instructions to visit various websites and answer questions about the periodic table. It covers major contributors to the development of the periodic table like Lavoisier, Dalton, and Mendeleyev. It also asks questions about the organization and structure of the periodic table, including periods, groups, atomic orbitals, and properties of different families of elements like alkali metals, halogens, and noble gases.

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Name: Marques Alsopp

Periodic Table WebQuest

Instructions: In each of the websites listed, find the information


asked for.

Part I: "Major Players" Go to

http://allperiodictables.com/ClientPages/AAEpages/aaeHistory.html

For this site, write the contribution of each person toward the development of the Periodic Table of Elements.

Scientist Contribution to the development of the periodic table


Greek thinkers Used the term "element" to describe various substances and "atom" to
describe their tiniest components.
Lavoisier Developed the first extensive element list Separated metals from non-
metals, divided the few elements known in the 1700s into four
classes, and discovered hydrogen and oxygen.
John Dalton Created the first chart by weight after developing a better method of
determining constituent weights.
Doberiner Found that some sets of three elements can be grouped, later called
‘triads’ in 1829
Dechancourtois Created a fully functioning periodic system on a cylinder, the vis
tellurique, the first portray the periodicity of properties that define the
modern table
;anmzaro Produced more accurate atomic weights for the elements known in
..
the 1860s
Newlands Arranged the elements in a number sequence in order of their atomic
weights beginning with hydrogen
Meyer Complied a periodic table of 56 elements based on the periodicity of
properties such as molar volume in 1869
Mendeleyev Published his periodic table & law in the 1869 but he also forecast the
properties of missing elements
Moseley Recorded the elements according to atomic number rather than
weight
Seaborg Into the 1930s the heaviest elements were being put up in the body of
the periodic table, and he ”plucked those out” while working with
Fermi, naming them the actinide series while making many new ones
which later permitted proper placement of subsequently ‘created’
elements – the transactinides, changing the periodic table yet again

Part II: "Get Organized Periodically" Go to


http://www.chem4kids.com/files/elem pertable.html

1. Why are the elements placed in specific places on the Periodic Table?
Because of their atomic structures

2. Periods are rows that run from left to right.

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3. Elements in the same period have the same atomic orbitals
4. Every element in the first period has 1 shell for its . Every element in the second
orbitals
period has 2 for its orbitals . See the pattern?

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5. Groups are columns that run from top to bottom.

6. The elements of a group have the same number of electrons in their outer shell.

7. Every element in group one has1 electron in its outer shell. Every element in group two has
--2--electrons in its outer shell.
8. Hydrogen is special because it can act like two groups, 2 and 7 _

9. Hydrogen sometimes is missing an electron and sometimes it has an extra_ electron.

10. Although helium has only 2 electrons in its outer shell, it is grouped with elements that have 8

11. The green elements on this table are called transition elements. They each have two electrons in their
outer shell.

Part Ill: "Family Fun" Go to http://chemicalelements.com/

12. Click on Alkali Metals (left bar) and answer the following questions.

a. What is the group number? 1_

b. Are these metals reactive? --Yes--

c. Do these metals occur freely in nature? No_

d. How many electrons are in their outer shell? _1_

e. What are the three characteristics of ALL metals? ---------

f. Are these metals soft or hard? -----soft-----

g. Name the two most reactive elements in this group? Cesium and Francium_

h. What happens when they are exposed to water? They will blow up_

13. Click on Alkaline Earth Metals (left bar) and answer these questions.

a. What is the group number? 2 _

b. Are these metals reactive? --yes--


c. Do these metals occur freely in nature? No_

d. How many electrons are in their outer shell? 2 (Hint: It's the same as their oxidation numbe/,
or group number.)

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14. Click on Transition Metals (left bar) and answer these questions.

a. How many elements are in this group? 38_

b. What are the group numbers? 3 through 12 _

c. What are valence electrons? ---the electrons on the


outermost shell--
d. Because the valence electrons are present in more than one shell transition metals often exhibit
several common ---oxidation states----

eName the three elements in this family that produce a magnetic field. iron_

cobalt, and nickel

15. Click on Other Metals (left bar) and answer these questions.

a. How many elements are in this group? 7 _

b. What are the group numbers? 13 through 15 _

c. How are these other metals similar to the transition metals? ---they are both
ductile and malleable--
d. How are these metals different than the transition metals? ---they do not

exhibit variable states---


e. List three physical properties of these other metals. Solid opaque very dense _

f. What are the oxidation numbers for this group? +3 -3 +4 _

16. Click on Metalloids to answer these questions.

a. On your periodic table, draw the black stair-step line that distinguishes metals from nonmetals.

b. Metalloids have properties of both metals and non-metals_

c. Define semiconductor Materials that can carry and electric charge under certain conditions

d. Name two metalloids that are semi-conductors. and


--silicon--- --Germanium
--
e. This property makes metalloids useful in computers and calculators

17. Click in Nonmetals to answer these questions.

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a. What are the group numbers? 14 through16 _

b. List four characteristics of ALL nonmetals. -does not reflect

light, lack metallic luster, brittle, and


does not conduct electriciity------------

c. What two states of matter do nonmetals exist in at room temperature? Gases and solids

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d. The nonmetals have no metallic luster and do not reflect light

e.What are the oxidation numbers of the nonmetals? ----------- ..


18. Click on the Halogens (left bar) to answer these questions.

a. What is the halogen group number? 17 _

b. Are halogens metals. or nonmetals? Non-metals_

c. The term "halogen" means salt-formed and compounds containing halogens are called salts

d. How many electrons are in their outer shell? 7 _

e.What is their oxidation number?


-----1-----
£ What states of matter do halogens exist in at room temperature?
Solid, Liquid and gases

19. Click on Noble Gases (left bar) and answer these questions.

·a. What is the group number? 18_

b. Why were these gases


considered to be inert or stable? Because The noble gases cannot form compounds with an oxidation
number of 0_

c. What is their oxidation number?


----0----
20. Click on Rare Earth Elements ( Inner Transition) (left bar) and answer these questions.

a. On you periodic table, label the Lanthanide and Actinide series with your pencil.

b. How many Rare Earth elements are there? 30 _

c. Define trans-uranium. Synthetic or man-made

d. The Rare Earth metals are found in group 3 and periods 6th and
7th

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