Group Characteristics in the Periodic Table

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Periodic table group properties
Research Question:
You are a group of young tutors teaching a group of 12 graders preparing for university entrance; your goal is to teach them periodic table group characteristics with emphasis on specific elements of each group.
You will include in your body of the report:
Hydrogen, Alkali metals, earth alkali metals, rare earth elements, group 4a elements, group 5a elements, group 6a elements, halogens and transition metals.
Essay must be minimum 2000 words in all written in Verdana 10, double spaced, margins 2.5 cm on all sides, number the pages consecutively, beginning on the first page of the text and continuing through to your works cited page.
The following parts must be present in your paper.
1-Title page
2-Table of contents
3-Body
4-References (work must be cited)

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Title: Group Characteristics in Periodic Table

Table of Contents:
1. Hydrogen
2. Alkali Metals and Earth Alkali Metals
3. 3A Group Elements
4. 4A Group Elements
5. 5A Group Elements
6. 6A Group Elements
7. Halogens
8. Transition Metals

Body:
1. Hydrogen
Hydrogen is the lightest element and the most abundant element in the universe. It has three isotopes: Protium, H; Deuterium, D; and Tritium, T. Deuterium and Tritium are used as isotopic labels in spectroscopy. Usually hydrogen is prepared by electrical or chemical reduction of a compound where hydrogen is in +1 oxidation state. For example, alkali metals react with water at ordinary temperature yielding hydrogen [1]:
2 Li + 2 H2O = H2 + 2 LiOH
Industrially hydrogen is produced by the steam reforming of natural gas and by the electrolysis of water. Hydrogen is a colorless odorless gas, which reacts with most of the elements. It is a better conductor of heat than other gases. Hydrogen does not support respiration, but it is not poisonous either.

2. Alkali Metals and Earth Alkali Metals
The alkali metals in Group 1 of the periodic table consists ...