These Are The Elements (Periodic Table Song, in order)

Periodic table song / rap with all the named elements in order. Easy and fun to memorize.

UPDATE #4: New supplementary song to help memorize the Symbols:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Wwf1UVdFo

UPDATE #3: Karaoke version now available:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjmD2-aXLs

UPDATE #2: Lyrics are at the bottom... copy and paste!

UPDATE: You can now download a slightly revised version of this song as an mp3, at the following URL:

http://bookbusband.com/songs/These%20Are%20The%20Elements%20Remix.mp3

Furthermore, I release this song and this recording under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. For details of what that means, see:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

(It's like the generic Creative Commons Attribution license offered by YouTube, except that you may not use it for commercial gain. And hey, let me know if you do use it!)

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My first attempt at rapping...

This was a challenge from my sister to help our high school kids memorize the periodic table. Though Tom Lehrer's version is famous, it doesn't include some of the more recently named elements, and (more importantly) it doesn't present them in order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIvXVMbII0

I highly recommend the TMBG song "The Elements" as a helpful reminder of what the elements are, and also as an example of a really excellent learning song, both educationally and musically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0m7jnyv6U

If you are using this song/video to memorize the periodic table, take advantage of a number of mnemonic devices I built in. All of the "noble" gases except for helium are labeled as such in the song... That means you know you're on the right hand side of the table. This should help you line things up if you are unsure.

Try to memorize one chunk at a time, or even one line at a time. And use the video to help you drill the symbols at the same time.

In some circles, the names may be pronounced slightly differently. For example, in Great Britian, "aluminium" is spelled and pronounced differently than the United States' "aluminum." I live in the US, so I pronounced things the American way, as best as I could.

Lyrics: These Are The Elements (by David Newman)

These Are The Elements

Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium,
Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen;
Fluorine [snore] (Now stop Snoring...
This isn't boring-And this is stuff you shouldn't be ignoring.)
*Neon* ["noble"] Sodium Magnesium
Aluminum Silicon, Phosphorus, Sulfur and
Chlorine (That's under Fluorine - [Hey we're up to seventeen!]
You've never had it better for remembering
the elements...)

These Are The Elements

So then we got Argon ["noble"] Potassium and Calcium;
scandium, titanium, vanadium and chromium;
Manganese iron cobalt-nickel-copper-zinc
gallium germanium arsenic selenium and
bromine. (that's under chlorine and fluorine)
Just keep storing the order for your mortar board...
Krypton ["noble"] Rubidium and strontium
Yttrium, zirconium, Niobium, molybdenum
Technetium ["it's radioactive"] ["whoah"]
ruthenium, rhodium-palladium
Silver ["BLING"] cadmium and indium.
Tin, Antimony, Tellurium and Iodine...

These Are The Elements ["That's 53 y'all"]

Now we've got
Xenon ["noble"] Cesium and Barium
["The lanthanides:"] Lanthanum and Cerium
* Pra-si-o-di-mi-um * Neodymium-
Promethium * Samarium-Europium
* gadolinium Terbium-dysprosium
Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium
["Going on:"] Lutetium, Hafnium and Tantalum
Tungsten, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium
Platinum ["BLING"] Gold ["BLING"]["BLING"]
Mercury ["HG"] Thallium and Lead
Bismuth Polonium Astatine
Radon ["noble"] Francium, and Radium

These Are The Elements ["It's gettin' hott in herre... It's radioactive"]

Now we've got the Actinides: Actinium and Thorium
Protactinium, Uranium ["BOOM"]
Neptunium, Plutonium ["BOOM"]
Americium, Curium, Berkelium,
Californium, Einsteinium, Fermium,
Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium
["That's it for the Actinides"] Whoah!
But we've still got little heavy metal to go...
Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium,
Bohrium and Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium,
Roentgenium, and now you all can sing it yourself
cause Copernicium gets us to 112.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Periodic
• Table
• Rap
• Song
• in order
• elements
• easy
• memorize

[caneofsomaria]

didn't recognise the element at 0:36.

I think they meant AL-U-MIN-I-UM

[bookbusband]

@caneofsomaria Read the comments... Aluminum is the proper spelling and pronunciation in North America. Yet another curious incidence of "two countries separated by a common language." (In this case, however, there are multiple countries which have adopted each term. The IUPAC recognizes both variants.)

You may also note that "Lanthanides" and "Actinides" are also called "Lanthanoids" and "Actinoids." The IUPAC prefers the latter, but scientists tend to use the former.

[abcef123100]

is it does my or does the periodic table go up to ununostium (118)

[bookbusband]

@abcef123100 elements 113-118 currently have placeholder names, though two of them have new, tentative names. The placeholder name for 118 is ununoctium, which essentially translates to "element 118."

[admiraldiggities]

if "boom" is earned by being fissile, californium really ought get a "boom" too

[bookbusband]

@admiraldiggities "boom" was just playing with the well known use of Uranium and Plutonium in building bombs, and trying to give an additional latch point for memorization.

[TheAmyLester]

I love it! Thumbs up!

[SmallBlueHeart]

This was a great tool in my studying! I passed my test with a 157/130! Thanks so much!

[SuperChrisanator]

ar science teacher made us watch this!!

[MrLuigi1302]

I hope this helps, i have to know 20 by tomorrow!

[frannyfreeanimals]

cant get that song out of my head! which is good...

[Kskano0713]

OH my goodness this helps so much! I have to remember 1-60 in the next 4 days. I've already got about 20 down, after listening to this about 5 times! :) Thanks so much, guys!

[1113malik]

@1998Adelle i have to learn 1 throw 59

[1113malik]

 this is like something you can learn easly . by the way i already now 1 throw 30

[dnd2011]

....this is a scary yet effecient way of learning the elements XD

[1998Adelle]

i have to lear to 20 by next week thank you so much!