Periodic Table Activity with a Word Search and Scramble

- Grades
- Grades 6–11, High School, Middle School
- Pages
- 7
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Science, Chemistry
- Topic
- word search, word scramble
- Resource types
- Word Searches, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Your students will love this engaging science review activity. Everyone loves word searches and scrambles and they make for a great review activity that is fun and competitive.
This interactive game reinforces key scientific concepts and theories, ensuring curriculum relevance and accuracy.
The game package includes 25 common Elements of the Periodic Table terms and concepts.
The first part of this activity is a word search using the common terms while the second part uses the same terms in a word scramble and define where your students need to unscramble the word and define it.
Simply print and go. This is a no-prep activity and can be used to introduce terms, review, or as additional work for those who finish early.
Tailor the experience to the level of your students. You can use one or both parts to help your students learn key concept terms.
Some example terms include:
Aluminum
Beryllium
Scandium
BORON
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Recall the atomic number of common elements
- State a property or real-world use of each element
Teaching tips
- The combined table asks for name, atomic number and fact at once; the separate tables let you drop the fact-writing for a shorter review.
Skills covered
- Element names — unscrambling and spelling 25 element names
- Periodic table lookup — writing the atomic number for each element
- Science writing — recording a fact about each element
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Periodic table
- Chemical elements
- Atomic number
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