Tips to memorizing the perioidic table of elements?

make it in to a song, it always works!... And i ask you to take Rachel's Challenge! http://www.rachelschallenge.com/

Get several copies of the table. Post them where you will see them many times a day. Fridge, bathroom by mirror, Locker, inside front of texts and notebooks. Look over it every time you come across it. This helps me don't know about others but learn the whole word for the abbreviation even if Greek or Latin (I do read Latin so maybe I don't count) If you can't think of the short form maybe you can remember the full name and then "get" the short. Repeat everything out loud to yourself so more than one sense is involved in remembering. Make an mp3 of yourself reading the table and listen to it instead of music for the next couple of weeks Tricks like that have let me learn not only Chemistry, Physics, Electronics but also French, Latin and Japanese. Flash cards you make yourself also help.

Listen to "The Elements" song by Tom Lehrer. Listen to the song by clicking onto the link that I've provided. I think you will enjoy this song. I heard this through my general and organic Chemistry classes during my undergraduate years...Have fun! Here's the lyrics: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium And lead, praseodymium, platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium And chlorine, cobalt, carbon, copper, Tungsten, tin and sodium. These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.

Hey, send me your e-mail and I can send you a goofy song of the elements. That won't help you with where they are but it will help with remembering the names and that's part of the battle. PS. I probably won't be able to send it until tomorrow. It really does help though.