General Resources
• Teachers’ Notes (updated September 2023)
• Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) (collected zip file)
• 2019 Element Sets Final Analysis
Displays
The sets are designed to be self-contained and used hands-on in the classroom. Many schools also put them on display, sometimes even engaging their woodwork classes to design their displays. Some suggestions are highlighted in the Teachers’ Notes.
One particularly effective and simple answer to both displaying the sets and keeping them accessible to use in the classroom is to get one of the display trays shown below (credit to James Kennedy of Kennedy College for the idea). These can be found on e.g. eBay (search ’50 nail container display’) easily.
For those feeling more adventurous (and better resourced), the lasercut display shown below was made by Owen Osborne at Scotch College, Adelaide (who has also added some more samples of their own). He has also kindly supplied the Adobe Illustrator file used to produce this (available here). In his words, “I split the image into layers which can be cut individually (our cutter accommodates 720mmx430mm boards) and then assembled. I cut it out of 3mm ply and stuck everything together with wood glue.”.
Finally, here’s another outstanding one, courtesy of Maria Cellini, Northside Christian College.
Class Plans
Class plans to come….