Aliens ActivityAliens Activity

by John Bergmann and Jeff Christophersonby John Bergmann and Jeff Christopherson

AliensAliens Introduction to

Periodicity

Your Mission

• NASA has recently found life on a nearby planet!

• These aliens have many similarities and differences and NASA is in need of a way to organize these life forms.

• Your job is to create a table to arrange these new life forms.

Getting Started

• NASA’s instructions:– Organize the aliens in a rectangular block.– Each groupgroup (vertical column) must be the same

in some way and must have some feature that changes regularly as you move down the group.

– Each periodperiod (horizontal row) must also share one thing in common and also must have one feature that changes regularly as you go across the periodic table. periodperiod

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The Aliens We Didn’t Find

• Describe what the next alien would look like in your periodic table.

• Also include a drawing of this alien.

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