Candace
has put together a lesson that illustrates how Dmitri Mendeleev developed
the periodic table. Students were given cards and
were asked to organize them in a logical way based on the
limited information displayed on each card. This lesson created
the context for examining the actual periodic table. It
also gave students an opportunity to make predictions about the
information on missing cards in much the same way Mendeleev made
predictions about elements that had not yet been discovered. This
allowed Candace to have have a rich discussion about the very nature
of science with her students.
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