A walk through the periodic table
How do we use the periodic table to get information about the elements?
Group and block properties
Watch the following videos below, as they describe the chemical and physical properties of the elements within each group.

Group Properties

Period Properties


Sources:
Desktop video captures obtained from Modern Chemistry, by Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
CHEM.9-12.1.b. Students know how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, non-metals, and halogens.
CHEM.9-12.1.c. Students know how to use the periodic table to identify alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and transition metals, trends in ionization energy, electronegativity, and the relative sizes of ions and atoms.
CHEM.9-12.1.d. Students know how to use the periodic table to determine the number of electrons available for bonding.
CHEM.9-12.1.f. Students know how to use the periodic table to identify the lanthanide, actinide, and transactinide elements and know that the transuranium elements were synthesized and identified in laboratory experiments through the use of nuclear accelerators.