Chemical Dominoes
For this project we created a board game filled with exciting chemical experiments. The theme my group chose was a winter theme which led us to call our game Winterwonderland. Overall we had five different experiments that our audience got to conduct while playing our game. We had one physical reaction and four chemical reactions. Our physical reaction was the creation of snow. Our chemical reactions include inflating a balloon, creating a blue color, lighting LEDs, and a present reaction. Creating the blue color was our double replacement reaction, inflating a balloon was our production of a gas, and the present reaction as well as lighting the LEDs were our single replacement reactions.
Below you will find a pdf that includes our blueprints and pictures of our different experiments. You will also find a pdf for our game rules as well as three pdfs for the rules of our individual experiments.
Below you will find a pdf that includes our blueprints and pictures of our different experiments. You will also find a pdf for our game rules as well as three pdfs for the rules of our individual experiments.
Chemical Dominoes | |
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Game Rules | |
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Safety Rules 1 | |
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Safety Rules 2 | |
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Safety Rules 3 | |
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Chemical change: involves the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance:
Physical change: changes affecting the form of a chemical substance, but not its chemical composition.
Single Replacement reaction: a type of chemical reaction where an element reacts with a compound and takes the place of another element in that compound.
Double Replacement reaction: a type of chemical reaction where two compounds react, and the positive ions (cation) and the negative ions (anion) of the two reactants switch places, forming two new compounds or products.
Synthesis reaction: a type of reaction in which multiple reactants combine to form a single product.
Decomposition reaction: a type of chemical reaction in which a single compound breaks down into two or more elements or new compounds.
Combustion reaction: an exothermic reaction in which something reacts with oxygen.
Chemical reaction: a process in which one or more substances, the reactants, are converted to one or more different substances, the products.
Reactants: the substances that result from this recombination of atoms
Compound: a substance formed when two or more chemical elements are chemically bonded together
Ion: an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons
Cation: a positively charged ion
Anion: a negatively charged ion
Reflection:
Overall this project ran extremely smooth. My group and I agreed on nearly everything, and when we did not agree we combined our ideas to come up with one great one. We came up with an idea for our design and game quickly, and all took some work home so that we maximized our time that we had to work on this project. We were also very creative and made sure that every reaction could be done by the individual players, which we figured would make the game more entertaining to play. The only problem we ran into was creating the blueprints of our game. This was difficult to do as no one had time to work on them, but after planing out my week I realized that I did have some time to work on them, so I took them home and completed them. Another challenge we ran into was choosing a single replacement reaction for our game. As our presentation day got closer we worried that we may not find one in time, however the week before our presentation one of my teammates found the perfect reaction. Throughout this project I learned how to create a creative and entertaining board game. I also learned how to how to create clear and detailed blueprints.
Overall this project ran extremely smooth. My group and I agreed on nearly everything, and when we did not agree we combined our ideas to come up with one great one. We came up with an idea for our design and game quickly, and all took some work home so that we maximized our time that we had to work on this project. We were also very creative and made sure that every reaction could be done by the individual players, which we figured would make the game more entertaining to play. The only problem we ran into was creating the blueprints of our game. This was difficult to do as no one had time to work on them, but after planing out my week I realized that I did have some time to work on them, so I took them home and completed them. Another challenge we ran into was choosing a single replacement reaction for our game. As our presentation day got closer we worried that we may not find one in time, however the week before our presentation one of my teammates found the perfect reaction. Throughout this project I learned how to create a creative and entertaining board game. I also learned how to how to create clear and detailed blueprints.