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__**Introduction to elements actitivities**__

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 * Notes**


 * 5.1 Organizing the Elements**

__Objectives__:

1. Describe how Mendeleev arranged the elements in his table. 2. Explain how the predictions Mendeleev made and the discovery of new elements demonstrated the usefulness of his periodic table.


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 * Characteristics and uses of elements**: [|click here]
 * Elements in your food** [|click here]
 * Elements present in your body** [|click here]


 * 5.2 The Modern Periodic Table**

__Objectives__:

1. Describe the arrangement of elements in the modern periodic table. 2. Explain how the atomic mass of an element is determined and how atomic mass units are defined. 3. Identify general properties of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids. 4. Describe how properties of elements change across a period in the periodic table.


 * 5.3 Representative Groups**

__Objectives__:

1. Relate the number of valence electrons to groups in the periodic table and to properties of elements in those groups. 2. Predict the reactivity of some elements based on their locations within a group. 3. Identify some properties of common A group elements.

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