Apologia Chemistry and Young Explorers Chemistry and Physics: Intro to Periodic Table

Today both groups started together for an introduction to the Periodic Table.  (You might try this activity.)  I like to differentiate metals and nonmetals, liquids, gases, and solids, and groups and families.  Here are the names of the groups or families.  We briefly explained the numbering systems of the groups.  I start with a discussion of the origin of the names of the elements, i.e. countries, Greek gods, coinage metals known to antiquity, etc.  We colored and labeled the groups using several different periodic tables: Periodic Table with liquids, gases, and solids.  names of groups,  The younger kids also worked on their elements cards.  Fun!