The periodic table, 118 ways in. Tap any element to look inside its atom, see where it's found and what we use it for. Then put it to work: flashcards, quick quizzes, a memory game, mystery elements and a reactivity lab.
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The poster on the lab wall shows all 118 elements and explains none of them. Atomik starts in the same place — the full table — but every tile opens up: protons, neutrons and electrons, the shells filling from the inside out, where the element turns up in nature and what it ends up in at home. Switch the colouring from family to state, block, electronegativity or discovery date and the patterns stop being something you're told about.
Then there's practice. Flashcards for names and symbols, ten-question rounds (keys 1–4 answer, Enter moves on), a memory match, and Find it, which hides first the symbols and then the colours until students are placing elements on a blank table. Mystery element is a detective game: each clue rules out part of the table, and an early guess scores more.
Investigate is the bit for science lessons proper. Students predict what a metal will do in cold water or dilute acid, drop it in and watch, then rank the metals. Material maker asks which elements combine to make salt, rust, an ore or a bone. A progress ring counts the elements each student has learned, kept in their own browser — nothing to sign up for.
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