NSDL Chem Ed DL releases Periodic Table Live! special collection

The ChemEd Digital Library has released a specialized collection of resources supporting use of their award-winning Periodic Table Live! interactive resource. PTL! includes a graphing and sorting applet that enables comparisons among elemental data; a glossary; information on characteristics; discovery; preparation; uses, animated atomic-scale structure; images, and/or video for elements in the Periodic Table. 

The PTL! Resource Pack is a collection of ready-to-use teaching and learning materials that include worksheets, example assessment questions, relevant journal articles from the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE), and online resources from ChemEd DL and other NSDL Pathways, including Teachers' Domain, the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD), and ComPADRE Physics & Astronomy Digital Library. 

The PTL! Resource Pack is incorporated in Chem Ed DL's developing ChemTeacher service, designed to aid high school teachers by featuring a broad range of resources on topics typically included in high school introductory chemistry courses.

John Moore, Chem Ed DL's Principal Investigator (University of Wisconsin), will receive the Merlot Classics 2010 Award on behalf of ChemEd DL and its Periodic Table Live! resource, at the Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Conference in San Jose, July 20-23, 2010.