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Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

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If you want to organize a fun chemistry assignment that can either be used during a school lesson or given as homework, here’s a free printable periodic table scavenger hunt worksheet you can use.

This scavenger hunt for kids is a great way to get your students taking more of an interest in the elements making up the periodic table, while also encouraging their creativity in the classroom.

Here’s how to organize it:

Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

Resources

  • Worksheet (see below)
  • Computers with internet access
  • Pens

Idea

Provide all of the students with a copy of the worksheet that contains 25 different elements from the periodic table. Their task is to think of items that best represent the different elements, then to go online and find images of them on the internet.

Once they’ve found the images, they should copy and paste them into a separate document, labeling each of the images so that it’s clear which element they’re supposed to represent.

Images

It’s up to you how literal you’d like your students to be when it comes to what kind of images they use. Here are a few examples of how some different elements could be interpreted:

Gold

  • Jewelry
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Olympic medal

Carbon

  • Pencil
  • Diamond
  • Exhaust fumes

Mercury

  • Thermometer
  • Planet
  • Singer of Queen

As you can see, there are many different ways the elements could be represented, so allow them some more freedom if you want to encourage their creativity.

List Of Elements

Here’s a list of 25 elements that are perfect for using for this science activity. Beneath this, there’s a link to download a free printable copy of the list as a worksheet that you can then hand to your students.

  1. Hydrogen
  2. Helium
  3. Carbon
  4. Nitrogen
  5. Oxygen
  6. Fluorine
  7. Neon
  8. Sodium
  9. Magnesium
  10. Aluminum
  11. Silicon
  12. Sulfur
  13. Chlorine
  14. Potassium
  15. Calcium
  16. Iron
  17. Nickel
  18. Copper
  19. Krypton
  20. Silver
  21. Tin
  22. Platinum
  23. Gold
  24. Mercury
  25. Lead

Printable Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

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