Football Periodic Table

This activity is useful for introducing the Periodic Table in KS3/KS4
Instead of elements, Premiership football teams (2016/2017) have been substituted for 20 elements, and their position in the table is calculated by a simple calculation.
A calculator may be useful, as will a Periodic Table and a current list of the football teams in the Premiership. A UK map will show the location of the towns and cities which have Premiership teams.
Teams have been given a symbol following the accepted pattern (single capital letter, or capital and lower case letter.)
Pupils may notice that some football teams have the same symbol as the elements, and can match these.
There is a space for one team, which has not yet been "discovered." Pupils can suggest a suitable symbol for it. Research will show that Mendeleev was faced with a similar problem and left blank spaces for elements which had not yet been discovered.
There is an opportunity for prediction, if additional teams were added, to find the position of a new team
There are many options to play around with this resource, such as finding patterns in the table, finding column similarities. I have arranged it so that column one teams are all ports, column 5 teams are all in London, but there are many ways to re-arrange the symbols.