Thursday, February 16, 2017

Preparing the Periodic Table Manual

WHAT? We prepared a 64-page chemistry MANUAL?
by Utkrishta Mulmi


3 February 2017. Nitya, Shaswat and I have been working very, very hard on our manual of the periodic table. We made a manual so we could understand the periodic table better. Over the past year we have learned the 118 elements on the table, their names, symbols, number, weight, type, state, and valency. Now we have to conduct extensive research related to what we have studied and make best sense out of the data that is in our minds.


We were to write their uses, which person discovered them, and put in a picture of the element's structure containing the proton, electron, and neutrons. Nitya started working on elements 1 to 30; I had to work on elements 31 to 60 elements; and Shaswat was assigned to work on elements 61 through 90. Between us, we would be done with 90 elements and rest of the 28 elements we would divide and finish things off.


If people don’t know what an element is, how are they going and understand the manual? That’s why Nitya was told to research on what elements are; what are atoms, protons neutrons and electrons so we have introductory pages for the manual. If we read this section, we can understand the manual properly.


I am surprised at what we did, really, because we came out with a manual that is 63 pages long over 3 or 4 weeks! How did we do that? I am pleased at how fast we did this. When Pallav sir first told us how we were going to achieve this, I thought it just was not possible. We were only told to write the narratives then add images so things would be more visual and easier to understand. My favorite part of making the manual was inserting the pictures of elements.


Next, we will be looking for cartoons or jokes or stories on each of the elements so the manual is also FUN to read.


Those who follow our blogs already know that I and Nitya have been appointed editors. Nitya put together all of our work in one file and went through it as an editor. I then had to edit all of the manual after he finished editing it. After I edited the manual, I handed it over. The editing was really easier than researching. But there were bits and pieces missing. So more and more research was required.

Kriti maam is a designer at muncha.com. Today at 3:30 she is coming to work with us and teach us formatting and DESIGNING. We look forward to finalizing the design and page formatting and printing out the manual and binding it and circulating it for school use.

Now that we have written the manual of the periodic table we are researching zoology related classification. This time more students are taking part in the research process. We will write a separate blog on that, of course! We all love researching, editing, formatting, and designing. Learning is fun.

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