What about a Periodic Table of QR codes for your classroom? Brady Haran fromPeriodic Videos, has created a periodic table with QR codes in place of the elements. Each QR code takes you to a video about the appropriate element.
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That’s cool!
You could adapt this for other subjects; the QR ABC, the QR evolutionary tree, the QR rock cycle, or QR synthetic chemistry with a video, picture or animation for each hydrocarbon.
There’s an audio version here too http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed200541e
Everyone past a ‘certain age’ will also remember this song by Tom Lehrer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8 but today’s kids still think it’s clever!
And if you are interested, here are the lyrics so that you can singalong in class!!
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There’s sulphur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others, but they haven’t been discovered.