Well, there was a new element. Element 117, the last holdout in the last row of the periodic table, existed briefly in a Russian atom smasher. It's the fifth new element discovered this decade.

• A table full of the elements—both dangerous and not dangerous; when you put them together, they make the periodic table. Isabella Zollner, 2/3 multiage, Battle Ground • It's your growth chart.

Kids climbed trees, hit balls, and did experiments on insects. ... The Periodic Table of 21st Century Play. It nicely supplements her in-depth 2010 innovation essay for Co.Design, ...

The Periodic Table of the Elements isn't exactly light beach reading. Karyn Tripp, a homeschooling mom of four, recently decided that she wanted to teach her kids the table, without totally boring ...

Most kids might say having to read The Scarlet Letter, or puberty. (I enjoyed both, thank you very much.) But arguably the most boring aspect was memorizing the periodic table–and all its damn ...

Karyn Tripp, a mom of four, has been homeschooling her children for 7 years and recently decided to take the periodic table to the next level with a brilliant and fun way to teach her kids ...

Thomas tells Newscripts the idea to assemble a periodic table of books came to him when he was a teenager. While other kids collected coins, stamps, and baseball cards, Thomas collected chemistry ...

A neon light went on over one mom’s head when she thought of a brilliant way to teach her kids chemistry -- a periodic table version of the game Battleship. “I came up with the idea because we ...

Names stick for life. Get them wrong and your kids are likely in for a lifetime of hardships. Luckily, that principle doesn’t apply to elements of the periodic table. ‘Nihonium (Nh ...