Mark Twain - Elements and the Periodic Table, Grades 5 - 8

This is the cutting edge, the fork in the road that will help you and your child decide whether a future in chemistry is in the cards. It's also where you get off the bus unless you have a working knowledge of chemistry yourself. It serves just as well for dabblers like me who are taking a second run at past failure. It challenges you to identify the elements by their symbols, sort them out according to the periodic table, and understand their uses in science and industry. The skill checks in the book will leave you with little doubt as to where you will be when you're ready to move on. If your child (or you) are ready for a serious aptitude test, this is the one.

Love the Elements Game inside-though it takes A LOT of effort to make/print.

Great activities !

I really like this workbook. It gives clear lessons on the basics of chemistry. I wanted to give my homeschooled son some familiarity with the periodic table for a few weeks at the end of physical science, so he could talk about it at a higher level when he got to chemistry.The workbook has useful lessons to read, going thru how the elements were named & how they are arranged (columns, rows, groups, etc). The info is presented in varied ways, and is not overkill for a short intro. Not very many activities I would consider useless fluff like I find in most workbooks, where the activity doesn't actually result in learning anything about the subject matter. We did skip crosswords & word finds, and didn't have time for some of the games and creations, but did some charts, labeling of the periodic table in different ways, timeline of discovering the elements(the book has one but I printed my own & had him put *all* the dates onto one), etc. Anyways, I think most of the activities did focus on learning or practicing something.I added the Walch workbook for a few more details, and the photographic element cards for a few visuals, but I used this book the most.

Thought it was an activity.