The Periodic Table is Born
Last Wednesday we started with the story of Dimitri Mendeleev's life. We sent the kids all the way back to 19th century Siberia, Moscow and finally St. Petersburg. Your kids listened with attention and focus about his dream in which the periodic table was born.
Using Lego blocks, they created a working system that allowed them to begin an understanding of chaos; we found categories for each piece and which type repeats most often.
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Dmitri Mendeleev, the Father of the Periodic Table
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is an exciting three-part series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
Premiered August 2015 on PBS.