The Periodic Table
Your child can read the periodic table. Elements in the same column behave in similar ways. Mendeleev arranged it and even left gaps for elements not yet found.
In curriculum terms
Describe the organisation of the periodic table into periods and groups, explain the contribution of Mendeleev, and use the table to identify metals, non-metals, and predict patterns in reactivity
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child was looking at a periodic table, could they explain why elements in the same column tend to behave similarly — and say what Mendeleev did that made it so useful to chemists?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships
construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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