Periodic Table Puzzle / Design Challenge
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There have been various designs of periodic table to try to keep together elements with similar properties. Some are even 3D designs. So I used the polypanel connection standard to design a periodic table puzzle to allow you to design your own logical arrangement of elements. See if you can make a Mendeleev flower, a telluric screw, a spiral table, the left-step table, or Scerri's table. I thought this might be an interesting educational tool to get kids to think about the relationships and similarities between elements: "Can you connect the puzzle pieces to keep the similar pieces together and their numbers in a logical order? Many have tried..." This kind of challenge and hands-on activity seems a better way to learn about relationships than wrote memorisation of numbers. Therefore, I included what seemed like the most important information for categorisation, leaving out information like melting temperature. Whether an element is a halogen, noble gas, transition metal, etc, is usually shown with colour on most periodic tables, but most people (including me) don't have multi-material 3D printers, so I added a shape to represent that categorisation, simply increasing the number of sides to the shape to show it is a different category. If anyone else can come up with a better representation of that information, you're welcome to remix it. Includes both triangular, and hexagonal versions of all elements, chosen because they allow more creative shapes to be built than squares, but I'd like to go back and provide a full set of squares and pentagons as well at some point. You could get different colours by switching out filament, using a multi-material printer, or simply painting them (which is probably what I'll do). Included the basic, blank panels as well as the element info as separate step files to make remixing easier. Uses standard polypanel connectors.
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