Post-Reading+Strategies

**Post-Reading Strategies**

__Free Rice Element Symbols:__ Free Rice Element Symbols

Students will go to the Free Rice website and under "Chemistry" select "Chemical Symbols (Basic)." They will be given 10 minutes to review as many element symbols as possible. This will give them extra practice memorizing the element symbols that they will be referencing throughout the rest of the Periodic Table Unit and school year.

__Periodic Table Vocabulary Word Sort:__

As a review of the vocabulary from the Periodic Table Unit, students will work in their lab groups to complete an open word sort. Students will sort the words from the unit into groups and give a title to each group to help make connections between the terms. Students will have a set of manipulative words to help them with the sort. By then end of the task, students will record their groupings and they will be shared with the class.

__Periodic Table Groups I Have Who Has:__

To help students practice identifying elements by their common groups on the periodic table, students will work in teams of six to complete a I Have.... Who Has... activity. They will be asked to start with elements and give the common group names and then reverse to start with the common group names and give the elements. There are three sets of I Have... Who Has..., so groups can rotate sets to have more practice.

__Periodic Trends Sentence-Phrase-Word:__

To help students process and review the information covered about Periodic Trends in class, this Sentence-Phrase-Word activity will be given as a homework assignment. Students will be asked to re-visit a section in the book about one of the periodic trends. The periodic trends will be divided into groups of students. The following class period students will share their sentence, phrase, and word with the class. The teacher will direct students from one of the periodic trends to share their sentences, share their phrases, and share their words. Then, a different trend will share. After hearing sentences, phrases, and words for every trend, students will be asked to reflect and write a complete sentence or two summarizing each of the trends.

__Periodic Trends Formative Assessment:__

Students will complete the Periodic Trends Formative Assessment to review the trends of the periodic table. This assessment will have them identify the patterns of properties on the periodic table, identify between two elements which one has a higher property value, and justify their selections. This activity will help students prepare to compare the trend values between two elements and justify their selections in the summative assessment.

__Electron Configuration Battle Ship:__ 

Electron Configuration Battle Ship gives students an opportunity to practice writing electron configurations. This is a fun, interactive way to review how to use the periodic table to write electron configurations. Electron Configuration Battle Ship will help students be prepared to write the electron configuration for an element in the summative assessment.