Creative Elemental Storytelling - Reading level grades 3-5

Objective: Student will research an element from the periodic table and listed web sites to write and illustrate a storybook.

The storyline can be as creative as possible but the information about the element should be factual. The story will include the element's name and origin, atomic number, symbol, its uses, economic advantages and or disadvantages. The storybook may be in the form of a comic strip or papmlet/brochure.


Sample excerpt from an element storybook
"Ali Aluminum - The unlucky element"
'Ali ALuminum never had many friends. No, it wasn't because she was mean, or different, or just plain unpopular. It was because all the other elements thought she was cursed with very bad luck. Her atomic number just happened to be 13, so everyone thought she was unlucky. One day she saw her friends Neil Neon, Gabby Gold, and Casey Krypton playing guitars in the park and thoughtthat since she was a metal she could play heavy metal rock'-