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ERIC Number: EJ1205718
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Feb
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
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Incorporating Tactile Learning into Periodic Trend Analysis Using Three-Dimensional Printing
LeSuer, Robert J.
Journal of Chemical Education, v96 n2 p285-290 Feb 2019
Consumer-grade manufacturing tools such as 3D printers are becoming increasingly prevalent in STEM education environments, especially as tools to develop inexpensive, tactile visualization models. Presented here is a workflow for creating 3D-printed periodic tables displaying a variety of trends from traditionally taught relationships such as atomic radius and ionization energies to less-frequently visualized distributions such as abundance in the human body and the number of stable isotopes. The process is facilitated by the use of Mathematica, which is used for both access to elemental data and generation of the file to be sent to the 3D printer. Since Mathematica is available for free for educational use on the Raspberry Pi, it is possible to use the procedures presented even under resource-limited conditions. An example group work activity is presented in order to demonstrate how the 3D-printed tables can be used in a classroom setting.
Division of Chemical Education, Inc. and ACS Publications Division of the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 800-227-5558; Tel: 202-872-4600; e-mail: eic@jce.acs.org; Web site: http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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