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Pg 6: Introduction

Pg 8: Meets Radon

Pg 10: Falls In Hole

Pg 12: Electron Configuration

Pg 14: Metal, Non-metal, Metalloid

Pg 16: Goes Into Wonderland; Meets Nitrogen

Pg 18: Electronegativity

Pg 20: Valence Electrons

Pg 22: Electron Affinity; Periodic Trends

Pg 24: Octet Rule

Pg 26: Modern And Original Periodic Table

Pg 28: The End

Pg 29: Glossary

Pg 30: Glossary

Once upon a time, there was a magical land called the 

Periodic Wonderland. A evil Queen who was called 

Queen Neon, ruled over the Periodic Wonderland 

with an iron fist. There is a rare animal called the 

Periodic Table that resides there. The Queen put a 

tremendous bounty on the animal for whom ever 

catches it and brings it to her. There was a slight 

catch though; in order to receive the bounty the 

person has to recite everything they know about the 

Periodic Table to her. Little did the Queen know, the 

person who captures the Periodic Table is the one to 

end the Queens' reign.

"Alice, Alice!", called her mother. "Get ready for 

school, you have a big chemistry test today over 

the periodic table." Alice started to head out the 

door to go to the bus, then she saw a little rabbit 

with a name tag; Radon. She thought, Radon the 

Rabbit, what a very odd name. She thought she 

was daydreaming, yet the rabbit urged her to 

follow him.

She felt herself moving, but she wasn't 

controlling her movements. She kept following 

him until he came to a stop to a big hole. The 

rabbit looked at her and jumped in. Before she 

knew it, Alice felt herself jump in a falling to no 

end. She had finally blacked out from the her 

fear of falling. She awoke to the thumping of the 

rabbit's foot as if he had been waiting for her. 

She quickly checked her surrounding noticing 

that they are in a compact room with nothing, 

but a door.

Alice stepped up to the door to get a closer look. What it seemed 

like, was that in order to open the door she had to do some noble 

gas electron configuration as if it was a puzzle. Radon gave Alice a 

piece of paper with a definition of what electron configuration is and 

instruction on how to shorten electron configurations to concentrate 

more on the valence electrons. Alice nodded with her head toward 

Radon as a sign of approval. She looked at the sheet of paper and 

saw the definition of electron configuration; It is the distribution of 

electrons of an atom or molecule in atomic or molecular orbitals. 

Luckily she saw it also came with an example. The electron 

configuration for the element neon is 1s^2, 2s^2, 2p^6. She looked 

back to the lock and saw that the elements she needed 

configuration for were Oxygen, Germanium, and Iron. She knew 

there had to be a shorter and easier to do it then she looked back 

the the paper and read the instructions on how to shorten electron 

configurations to concentrate more on the valence electrons. In big 

bold letter beside it, she read noble gas configuration and she finally 

remembered that in order to do noble gas configuration you go to 

the element, move up a period and go all the way to the right to hit 

a noble gas.

She started to fiddle around the lock to get all three noble gas 

configurations. She entered all of them in; Oxygen: [He] 2s^2, 

2p^4. Germanium: [Ar] 4s^2, 3p^10, 4p^2. Iron: [Ar] 4s^2, 

3d^6. She stepped back from the door and noticed that it wasn't 

budging open. There was a minor problem. She had barely noticed 

that under each element is a empty box. For Oxygen, the box said 

nonmetal, for Germanium the box said metalloid, and for Iron the 

box said metal. She had to give brief verbal characteristics for each 

type before the door could open into the unknown. She gathered 

her thoughts and began to speak. "Metals are very shiny, malleable, 

and ductile. They are also good conductors of heat and electricity." 

She heard a click and the box disappeared under Iron. Only two 

more to go. "Non-metals are poor conductors of heat and electricity. 

Neither malleable nor ductile." Alice said, "And last but not least 

Metalloids generally look metallic but are actually brittle and they 

are considered semiconductors." She heard the last two clicks and 

the door slowly opened.

Her eyes were were as big as she stared at the magical land. Radon 

went outside and pointed the a sign post which Alice read Periodic 

Wonderland. All of a sudden Radon ran off into nowhere. She figured 

he come back. She looked under the sign and saw what the reward 

was. Anything your heart desires. She saw that the reward was 

anything your heart desires. Her eyes glinted for a moment when she 

saw that. Anyhow she wondered where to go from there then all of a 

sudden a cat appeared from nowhere in gaseous form. He said to 

Alice. "Hi Alice, my name is Cheshire M. Nitrogen and I have a little 

proposition for you. As you may know you are the chosen one to get 

rid of the Queen. She is a blight on this once prosperous land, but 

now everything is scared of her, even the might Periodic Table whom 

she wants to get rid of completely. Well you have the choice to 

capture it and hand it over to her or the right thing. Anyhow I am 

going to teach you about electronegativity which is one of her 

weaknesses. It is the tendency of an atom or radical to attract 

electrons in the formation of an ionic bond. You will have to learn 

more from the Periodic Table yourself.

And last piece of advice; when you capture the Periodic 

Table just know that electronegativity increases as you 

go across a period and decreases as you go down a 

group."All of a sudden he disappeared from thin air as if 

he turned into nitrogen. Anyhow Alice went to search for 

the Period Table night and day seeing all sorts of strange 

elements which were considered animals in the Periodic 

Wonderland. She was very weary from traveling day by 

day, with the rabbit, in search for the Periodic Table. She 

kept strolling when out of nowhere a ring of valence 

electrons hit her in the face. She coughed and choked , 

for a minute or two then she looked up and saw a fat 

blue caterpillar.

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