Chemical Elements

Books: Library catalog (only available at St.Joe's)

• Type in your specific element - look by KEYWORD and SUBJECT
• Type in the broader term CHEMICAL ELEMENTS and click on SUBJECT

Encyclopedias:

• Look up your element in Grolier's online encyclopedia (@ school)
  
  • first time users @ home to register
• Try Answers.com for a combination of online encyclopedias and dictionaries

Online web sites -- or search using Google

• Chemical Elements.com - click on your element for information
• Chemicool.com - click on your element for information
• It's Elemental - click on your element - Jefferson Lab
• Periodic Table -LennTech - shows information on health and environmental effects
• Periodic Table of the elements: resource for students (Los Alamos National Laboratory) gives uses, properties,history
• Visual Elements Periodic Table - (takes time to load) click on your element for information
• Web Elements.com Periodic Table click on your element for information and then see sidebar for history and other interesting information

Just for fun

• Chemical Elements and their symbols - Quia set of games: matching, concentration, word search and flash cards
• Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements his site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table. Comics include Uncle $crooge, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman, and many more
• Element Flash Cards Students provide the chemical name, chemical symbol or atomic number of an element from the Periodic Table of Elements. Answers are recorded and can be reviewed at any time - Jefferson Lab
• Element Hangman Find the element's name before the atom man decays completely!- Jefferson Lab
• Play -- It's elemental (an elemental matching game) - Jefferson Lab