Periodic Table of the Elements Coloring Book

Periodic Table of the Elements Coloring Book

Author: Yann BrouilletteORCID iD

To promote active learning in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the Chemistry Department and the Illustration & Design Department at Dawson College, Westmount, QC, Canada, initiated a collaborative project to create a palpable introduction to the building blocks of matter for kindergarten children. Together, they created a Periodic Table Coloring Book illustrating the known elements of Mendeleev’s table. In an internationally accessible format, each page displays only the atomic number and symbol of an element, in addition to a few black and white outlines representing an example of its real-world applications.

 

Fun Experience Motivating to Explore Further

The chemical elements are the building blocks of matter, the LEGO® building bricks of the world. And just like kids from ages 4 to 99 enjoy assembling these blocks, this coloring book is not just “for children”; everyone can enjoy and learn from it. For an example of all element pages colored by actual kids, please see the photo on the right.

Put together, the elements create a magnificently organized system of knowledge, classifying physical and chemical properties in groups and trends which, in turn, help us to navigate the material world through an understanding of its chemical composition. But the Periodic Table remains a complex system to grasp in its entirety, and the process of learning about all the possible elements can be difficult for anyone, young and old alike, who is new to chemistry.

The coloring book provides a simple, ordered way of entering into this field of study while also making the experience fun, motivating the learner to explore further.

 

Enjoy Coloring the World

Just as Dimitri Mendeleev bravely left gaps in the systematic arrangement of elements that later became the modern periodic table, gaps where he thought undiscovered elements at the time would be located, some pages of this coloring book have no illustration, mirroring the idea that, so far, no applications have been found for these particular elements. The gaps are a form of invitation to the generations to come to find meaningful applications for the most recently isolated and/or synthesized elements.

Science is an evolving field, and this coloring book might be old-fashioned one day. But until then, enjoy coloring the world!


Download the coloring book by clicking here or on the image below

 

Contributors

Element representations and cover by Dawson College Illustration & Design students (2nd year)

Overseen by Meinert Hansen (Faculty, Illustration & Design, Dawson College)

Project managing and chemistry overseen by Yann Brouillette (Faculty, Chemistry, Dawson College)

 

Artists

Theo Elton Andreville, Antoine David Arnould, Antonia Aspros, Dalia Ataev, Skylar Aung-Thwin, Tobias Avison, Sahar Bakhtiari, Angela Chiarelli, Malika Chim, Natalia Czaharyn, Audrey Desaulniers, Sophie Després, Nicole Evstakhov, Andrea Fabris Pascual, Benjamin Fisher, Marie Joëlle Fournier, Rose Fulford, Marie-Maxime Giguère, Kaya Gonzalez, Vanessa Ierfino, Lydian Kirkwood, Megan Lalonde, Sarah Lemieux, Joanna-M Marianakis-Belec, Valentina Martorana, Rebecca McFarlane, Sakeenah Montanaro, Emma Murphy-Furze, Julie Nguyen, Lauren Pagotto, Xuan Huong Phan, Pavlina Petrova Rahneva, Ngoc Tri Tu, Derek Ung, Jafer Wong. Cover by Dalia Ataev.


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