Lab 3: Nomenclature Puzzle

The goal of this activity was to familiarize ourselves with the names and corresponding formulas of various binary and polyatomic ions. The biggest challenge while completing this activity was recognizing and searching for symbols and polyatomic ion formulas I didn't recognize. I'm also very unfamiliar with certain elements in which the symbols don't seem to relate to the name at all - for example, iron and Fe, so I had to familiarize myself with those by repeating them in my head and searching them on the periodic table. Some of the polyatomic ion formulas were also extremely long and difficult to memorize, but I eventually got the hang of it. I believe my biggest contribution to the group was organizing who would start out with which element (I started with barium), because creating the pairs was the basis of forming the complete square. I also was very intent on setting goals for the group and calling out what name/formula we should have searched for next.