Question

Purpose:

In this lab activity you will create your own periodic table of food items. You will explore the characteristics of twelve selected food items and organize them by their properties.

Materials:

Use the interactive in the lesson to setup and organize your table.

Procedures: (15 points)

Select twelve of your favorite food items.
Examine the characteristics of each item selected.
Create up to four categories based on the similarities between each food item. (ex.. dairy, proteins, fatty foods, breads, etc..)
Create up to three rows of characteristics based on the similari

Answer 1

so... what's the problem?

Answer 2

Mabe he/she is confused on how to begin..

Answer 3

Yeah, Im confused on how to just start like i only have the list of food....but i just dont know where to go from there

Answer 4

what are your 12 foods?

Answer 5

Dont forget to make a clear spot on your kitchen/counter space.

Answer 6

Pizza
Tomato
Milk
Apple
Pretzels
Chips
Crackers
Grape
Ham
Banana
Cookies
Chicken

Answer 7

Ok, What they are trying to do is give you an example of how the periodic table works,

Answer 8

The periodic table is split into groups, kind of like the food.

Answer 9

So split it into like fats,grains and stuff like that

Answer 10

Yes, like that, you see the periodic table is split into three groups, non-metals, metalloids, and metals.

Answer 11

The periodic table also increases in atomic number as you go left to right.

Answer 12

Okay so how do i start splitting them. into those groups?

Answer 13

Well, you don't want to split food into metal categories, you want to begin to organize them by 'food groups', It says that you need to make 4 categories based on proteins, fatty foods, breads, etc...

Answer 14

Do you kind of get the purpose and what your supposed to do with this activity?

Answer 15

Yeah i did thank you so much!

Answer 16

No problem! Happy to help, I'm still here if you need anything else, I'll keep this tab open. :3 If in fact you dont need anymore help, click the 'close question' tab so people know your done, ok?