Cube-shaped Periodic Chart

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Templates are photocopied and each students get the forms used to construct the Cube-shaped Periodic Table and the course review 7 other cubic graphic organizers inside this Box-in-a-box project.

The Amazing 3-D Cube Shaped Periodic Chart of the Elements is a science class must have project!

This booklet contains all the necessary templates for a classroom of student to each construct a series of eight cubes, each one formed by five geometric parts that contain triangular faces where the various components of lessons are placed.

The eight cubes are scaled so one fits inside the last, allowing the whole course if study to be contained in the one final and largest cube which is a 3-D Periodic Chart.

When taken apart and examined one at a time, the entire course of General High School Chemistry is reviewed. This presents a great opportunity for students to take turns as the class slowly unfolds the finished product. Perhaps as a closing exercise, the class can participate in this review as different teams of students explain the concepts in one of the cubes.

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The finished product!

This is the large Audio-visual Teacher's Aid which is identical to the smaller units which the students will construct.

This amazing Cube Shaped Chemical Periodic Chart of the Elements actually contains all the traditional topics in the High School Chemistry Course, all organized graphically on smaller and smaller cubes which are found inside this first.

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Hands-on Assignments become literal in Chemistry

These project oriented lessons lend themselves to Cooperative Learning assignments. Students can work together to construct and explain these models. A lot of pride in their accomplishment encourages self esteem and the sense of accomplishment.

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One of the eight cubes inside is a model that displays the Electronic Configuration Code.

This model once completed by the students lends itself to use in ticking off the addresses of the electrons in various atoms as the student counts around the dial when the geometric parts are properly set up and arranged.

Cooperative Learning advantages abound with the Hands-on, project oriented learning style approach. The students respond favorably to the group assistance and good natured competition as the more dominant kinesthetic intelligent people demonstrate a mastery above average. The finished work lends itself to enhancing the classroom with displays. Portfolios are practical since the various parts when cut out pieces must be stored between session. This produces a folder which allows for Alternative Assessment when the Rubric for evaluation is based on producing the various finished assignments resulting from these kind of lessons.

Below a student unfolds each of the eight cubes, one at a time, as he presents before the class his finished model. He explains the concepts relating to each face on the modules. This alternative assessment opportunity for the teacher has the added benefit of repeating the lesson again and again to the whole class as one student follows the next in exhibiting his finished Cubic Period Chart of the Elements while demonstrating his/her own knowledge of the concepts represented on the 3-D graphic organizer.

The Box-inside-a-Box presentation intrigues students as well as Chemistry teachers who will this Project Oriented instructional method very acceptable to the students who will work diligently day after day to finish their own take home "Show and Tell." This approach allows for Alternative Grading and offers the more manually gifted students the opportunity to contribute and receive approval and high grades for laboratory credits. The students are very open to what is actually as subtle Interactive Lecturing opportunity as the teacher plays the role of a project Facilitators, assisting the students in the construction detail, but actually using the opportunity to explain the concepts found on each of the eight model cubes.

During the construction activity the students use colored felt tips, crayons, colored pencils, or even water color paints to emphasize the sets and groups of concepts related to a particular subject on the individual cube which pertains to a whole topic in the text book.

This booklet contains the 16 templates that will be photocopied for each class member. Instructions and directions are included with tips and recommendations for constructing each of the eight (8) cubes.

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HOW TO UTILIZED THE HAND AS THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

HOW TO FOLD A PAGE IN THE LOTUS LEAF NOTEBOOK:

How TO USE THE BLACKBOARD TO LECTURE ON A LOTUS LEAF PAGE:

HOW TO CUT AND FOLD THE CUBES: