Element Names and Symbols
Directions:
In the following lesson you will be asked to match a statement to the element that it describes. The element names will be used for the answers. The correct answers will come from the list of elements provided. However the element list provided will be in symbols only. You must know the name that goes with the symbol to answer correctly. A sense of humor is also required to have any hope of getting the correct answers. J After you are done you go to the answer page by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
Teachers:
You may want to provide periodic tables or not depending on your student’s knowledge of elemental symbols. This is intended to be a fun activity and is one that I have used as part of an emergency lesson plan, since it can be done at any time of the year.
Example:
| Ba | What you do
with dead animals _________________
Ans. Barium (get it, bury 'em J ) I love this stuff! |
Lesson:
The answers in the left column are not in order with the statements.
| H
N
Ni
Si
Cu
He
B
I
Rh
Sb
Hg
F
Pd
C
Zn
Os
Ag
Sn
Te
Mn |
1. Name of a
girl ________________
2. What she got after the divorce ________________
3. Storage place for street cars ________________
4. What some school courses do (not this one) ________________
5. Night rider for Helen of Troy ________________
6. Half of a dime ________________
7. The Lone Ranger’s horse ________________
8. Not fat ________________
9. A man who gives admission slips to traffic court ____________
10. Donnie and Marie ________________
11. Gin with water in it ________________
12. What I do when I am hungry ________________
13. Male of the Ganese tribe ________________
14. What torpedoed ships do ________________
15. Messenger of the gods ________________
16. What he did to a bucking horse ________________
17. Big English theater (or theatre) ________________
18. What would be done to a wounded person ________________
19. A crazy inmate ________________
20. Why she wears "My Sin" perfume ________________ |
If you are done, go to the
answer page to check your answers. I hope you had fun!to return to "Ponder Chemistry" click here -> 
Comments to:
mgponder@lynchburg.net
Credits:
Being the teacher that I am I may, at times, use (steal) things that I have seen before. Many of these descriptions above come from a great friend and colleague, Eddie Powell. If you think one of them is funny, it's mine, if not it's Eddie's.
J