Some years ago at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I taught a one-semester inorganic course for BS chemistry majors. During the class we covered all the noncarbon elements in a ...

If you think back to middle school chemistry, you’ll probably remember trying to memorize the Periodic Table of the Elements. Perhaps the Tom Lehrer song is still ingrained in your head: I wish my ...

A science teacher at Warren Middle School in Forney is trying to add a element of fun to memorizing the periodic table. In science teacher Dawn Sheets' lesson, all the elements are family members. Her ...