Showing posts with label periodic table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label periodic table. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A Learning Object for the 'Scientifically Challenged'

I have a confession to make.
Science, alongside math, is largely a mystery to me. As a school student, I believed I didn't have the type of brain for science so I put my efforts into history, law and English literature, which I found easier. One example of science I completely gave up on is the Periodic Table of the Elements. I was told how important it is by my teachers but the whole thing just looked too hard to understand or commit to memory. I wonder if this would have been different had I been able to access learning objects like this:

http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/warehouse/00601-00700/00696/Chemistry.swf

It's an interactive webpage about the Table. The page gives definitions and allows viewers to see the Table's classifications, the relationships between elements and the nature of the elements themselves. It's very simple to use, a breeze to follow and can be accessed via a smart phone, making it portable and useful for when a laptop and web connection isn't handy. Pretty decent little learning object, in my opinion.

What do you think?