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Maxwell's E-Portfolio

Periodic Table of Flips

            During the class's Chemistry unit, we represented our finding of the entire unit through our own twist on the periotic table. As a gymnast, I teamed up with two other people, Alex (who preforms parkour) and Jayden (gymnast). Together we created the idea of

making our table with flips, instead of elements. The first step towards completion was done by brainstorming and recording every flip or flip-like skill we could think of. After narrowing down our "elements" from well over 100 to just 90 we worked on how we would organize all of them. The periodic table of elements is formatted in many ways, so matching each organization with our flips proved very difficult. After lots of planning, our table's atomic number was the flip difficulty. The atomic mas was equal to the flip motion and the valence electrons was flip commonness or amount it is performed.

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          This is one of my best pieces in this class due to me learning about the periodic table and the organization within it, while I also focus on my passion; gymnastics. Along with my teammates I really enjoyed working on this, thus the final result was greater than previous and upcoming pieces of work. It was really fun to work with others who possessed similar passions and interests and I feel this projected itself on the final piece. Not only was this project really great to work on, it improved my collaboration skills and changed my perspective of chemistry by putting a twist on it.

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