Nonmetal or Metal
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About this worksheet
Eight illustrated cards, eight real elements: oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine, and carbon face off against copper, iron, and aluminum. Each card gives the element's physical properties, and students fill in the circle - metal or nonmetal? Four of the nonmetals are invisible gases, which drives home the idea grade 6 students find hardest: a gas you cannot see is still an element on the periodic table.
What's Included
- 1 student page: 8 illustrated element cards (5 nonmetals, 3 metals) plus a Sum It Up fill-in with word bank
- 1 teacher key page with the answer and a one-line property-based reason for every element, plus a Big Idea box
How It Helps You Teach
- Directly practices TEKS 6.6C: identify elements on the periodic table as metals or nonmetals based on their physical properties
- Leans on gases (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine) so students learn that many nonmetals are gases, not just dull solids
- The Big Idea reinforces classifying by the whole set of properties, not one clue
Pair It With
This sheet is part of a four-activity Properties of Nonmetals set: Context Clues, Inferences, Science in the News (hydrogen as a clean fuel), and Science Sort. Check out our library for the other three and the full set.
Standards: TEKS 6.6C; NGSS MS-PS1-3. Part of the Daily Science series by Workybooks.
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