Educator Guide: The periodic table turns 150

Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev (shown around 1880) was the first to publish a periodic table, which put the known elements into a logical order and left room for elements not yet discovered.
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About this guide
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Use this guide to introduce students to the history and development of the periodic table, to the periodic table as a model and to scientific models more generally. Students will explore patterns in the arrangement of chemical elements on the table and patterns in the reactivity of those elements.
This Guide Includes:
Go beyond Mendeleev’s model
Now trending, the Periodic Table
The Periodic Table: A nuclear view
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