All academic subjects need different levels of understanding and attention. Whether they are science-related or arts, they should be taught in a ways that students don’t feel burdened or bored.

So when a time comes to learn the periodic table, some students just want to vanish from the scene while some just love to dig into the mysteries of matter and elements.

Thus for the former lot of students, Mystery of the matter — will definitely work inspire them to know more about the elements and the matter.

According to the site itself, “The Mystery of Matter: Search for the elements is a multimedia project about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long (and continuing) quest to understand what the world is made of — and to identify, understand and organise the basic building blocks of matter.”

In a nutshell, the project is about the human story behind the Periodic Table of the Elements.

The website is simple but full of important information. The main menu is at the top centre where one can read about some of history’s most extraordinary scientists like Joseph priestly, Antoine Lavoisier, whose discovery of oxygen — and radical interpretation of it led to the modern science of chemistry; Humphry Davy who made electricity a powerful new tool in the search for elements; Dimitri Mendeleeve whose Periodic Table brought order to the growing multitude of elements others include Marie Curie, Harry Moseley and Glenn Seaborg, etc.

Visitors can also explore how discoveries about atoms changed the scientific world forever.

Moreover, the site has links to videos of PBS film, The Mystery of the Matter, which show these scientists’ discoveries made through re-enactments with replicas of their original lab equipment in three-episodes of one hour each. Students can view each episode in addition to many supplemental materials and remember everything they come across while in the chemistry class in a much interesting way then before.

http://www.mysteryofmatter.net/

Published in Dawn, Young World March 25th, 2017