{"id":115,"date":"2008-04-09T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-04-09T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:17:34","slug":"strewing-the-periodic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Strewing the Periodic Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the part of the science curriculum I’ve come up with so far, a modern icon, the Periodic Table.\u00a0 There’s only one I know of that’s pretty enough to hang on the wall.\u00a0 It comes from Theodore Gray’s site<\/a>.\u00a0 I must say that I although I think the poster is amazing and the site is (was?) brilliant, it seems to have suffered from a sudden proliferation of advertising for this same poster which drags it down a bit.\u00a0 Here I was, planning to buy the poster anyway, and now I would like to get some extra information about all the elements and enjoy the pictures.\u00a0 There is lots of information, photographs and other wonderful stuff.\u00a0 And, at a rate of about three times per page, there are lots more adverts for this poster.\u00a0 Nobody, but nobody, who visits this site will be left in any doubt that there is a poster for sale.\u00a0 That, I suppose, is the idea, but I’m sure there must be more refined ways of achieving the same end. Maybe it’s just me, but this does not breed in me an earnest desire to buy further posters for everyone from my third cousin to my neighbour’s budgie.\u00a0 It breeds in me a certain irritation.<\/p>\n

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Currently, we’re having a small problem with our poster because the US postal service have decided to mangle it, but I’m confident we can sort that out.\u00a0 With the Periodic Table goes a certain amount of vocabulary, which will hopefully emerge from our idle chitchat around it:<\/p>\n