International Elements

What is it that these 6th grade boys find so interesting on their chrome books? Would you believe me if I told you they were translating The Periodic Table? It is great working at an international school when you teach The Periodic Table. Why is the symbol for Sodium Na? Did you know it is called Natrium in Swedish? Tungsten sounds like a Swedish name but the symbol is W. It's called Wolfram in German. Silver's symbol Ag doesn't make much sense to an English speaker but a French person understands the symbol, silver is argent in French. I shared a blank google sheet with a few headings with 6v. In about 15 minutes they had created this!!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ibrvL2mvfEhIcLluMmIvSKXMgh7HwGKFcKlVtEvFJiw/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the view from the other side of the screen.