Exercises in learning are no different from drills in sports. These activities reinforce skills that have already been taught and help fine-tune understanding.
Beach Ball Elements
In a STEM-focused environment you might want to keep the first 20 elements on the Periodic Table fresh in the minds of the students. For this activity, you would take a beach ball and write the numbers 1 - 20 randomly around the ball. The students would take turns tossing each other the ball and calling out a finger (ie - right thumb) as the student catches it. Whatever number is written closest to the finger called will be the element number the student will have to identify. This could be made harder by asking the student to not only identify the element, but also the symbol or atomic mass. This incorporates movement which helps with memory formation as well.
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