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Activity 3
The Periodic Table: It’s Element-ary!

Objectives: In this activity, you should be able to:

1. be familiar with the layout of the periodic table;

2. know some information about the elements that may be found in the periodic table;
and
3. Identify the group number an element it belongs to.

Materials Needed
 periodic table of elements
Procedure: Perform as directed. Write your observations on the results and discussions.

Results and Discussion:

Q1. What are the symbols for elements with long names such as beryllium, phosphorus,
germanium, and darmstatdtium?
Q2. What are the symbols for boron, nitrogen, fluorine and vanadium?
Q3. What are the symbols for lithium, chlorine, argon, calcium and manganese?
Q4. What are the symbols for iron, silver, mercury, and lead?
Q5. What are the symbols for silicon, magnesium and gold?
Q6. When you were recycling materials, you segregated the objects according to what these are
made of. Some of them are made from aluminum, copper, tin or carbon. What are the symbols
for these 4 elements?
Q7. In nutrition, you were advised to eat enough bananas because it is a good source of
potassium. What is the symbol for potassium?
Q8. In each box, you will find a number on top of each symbol. This is the atomic number. In the
higher grade levels, you will learn what this number represents. For now, use it as a guide on
how the elements are sequenced. What is the element’s name and symbol that comes before
titanium? How about that comes after barium?
Q9. Elements that are in the same column have similar properties. For this, each column is
called a family and has a family name. However, at this point, you will refer first to each family
with their corresponding group number. Notice that the columns are numbered 1 to 18 from left
to right. In which group does each of the elements listed in Table 1 belongs to?

Table 1. Name and symbol of some elements and the group number it belongs to.

Group Number
Q# Name Symbol
(Q9)

beryllium Be 2
phosphorus P 15
1
germanium Ge 14
darmstatdtium Ds 10
boron B 13
nitrogen N 15
2
fluorine F 17
vanadium V 5
lithium Li 1
chlorine Cl 17
3 argon Ar 18
calcium Ca 2
manganese Mn 7
iron Fe 8
silver Ag 11
4
mercury Hg 12
lead Pb 14
silicon Si 14
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gold Au 11
aluminum Al 13
copper Cu 11
6
tin Sn 14
carbon C 14
7 potassium K 1
Scandium Ti 34
8
Lanthanum BaLa 24

Conclusion:

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Activity 8
The “Matter” on Labels

Objectives:

In this activity, you should be able to:

1. name elements that are listed in the Nutrition Facts of a food label;
2. recognize that the elements listed in the Nutrition Facts are not added as the
elements themselves;
3. infer the food ingredient that could be the source of those listed elements; and
4. recognize that most of these food ingredients are examples of compounds.

Materials Needed

 food labels

Procedure: Perform as directed. Write your observations on the results and discussions.

Results and Discussion:

Table 3. Compounds and their constituent elements written in the food labels

Food Product Compound Constituent Element

Cereal Drink

Chocolate candy

Soy sauce

3. The elements iron and zinc are listed in the Nutrition Facts for the cereal drink. Find out
from the Ingredients the source of these elements.

4. Name three elements present in the Ingredients of the cereal drink

which are not listed in the Nutrition Facts.

Conclusion:

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