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Chemistry for the Gifted and Talented: Elemental Su Doku

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This activity helps students gain a familiarity with the periodic table by getting them to continually refer to it in a problem solving activity.

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Wales
- GCSE
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 1: CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, REACTIONS and ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
      - 1.1 THE NATURE OF SUBSTANCES AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS
        (d) how to represent elements using chemical symbols and simple molecules using chemical formulae
  - WJEC Combined science
    - Unit 2: Chemistry 1
      - 2.1 THE NATURE OF SUBSTANCES AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS
        (d) how to represent elements using chemical symbols and simple molecules using chemical formulae
Northern Ireland
- GCSE
  - CCEA Chemistry
    - Unit 1: Structures, Trends, Chemical Reactions, Quantitative Chemistry and Analysis
      - 1.6 The Periodic Table
        1.6.4 demonstrate knowledge and understanding that a group is a vertical column in the Periodic Table and a period is a horizontal row; and
  - CCEA Double award science
    - Unit C1: Structures, Trends, Chemical Reactions, Quantitative Chemistry and Analysis
      - 1.6 The Periodic Table
        1.6.4 demonstrate knowledge and understanding that a group is a vertical column in the Periodic Table and a period is a horizontal row; and
Republic of Ireland
- Leaving Certificate
  - Chemistry
    - 1. Periodic table and atomic structure
      - 1.1 Periodic table
        Depth of treatment
        Elements. Symbols of elements 1 - 36
      - 1.4 Electronic Structure of Atoms
        Depth of treatment
        Classification of the first twenty elements in the periodic table on the basis of the number of outer electrons.

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