Background:
This project was related to the Rube Goldberg project from freshman year. This project is a game your group has created that includes chemical reactions such as a single replacement reaction, double replacement reaction, production of a gas, and to light up an LED. The players in order to win the game, they must complete the reactions correctly to continue through the game. If they did not complete the reaction correctly, they would head back to the start. As we created the game, it includes rules of the game, safety precautions, and a blueprint. This board game is a combination of science and game of play an entertainment of fun while the players get a more understanding of science! The players also get the opportunity to handle chemicals and learn cool experiments.
My group's project:
In the beginning of this project, we struggled to find a theme. Going from under the sea, to space, we discovered a popular old tv show that we all recognized from our childhood, 'The Fairly Odd Parents'. 'The Fairly Odd Parents' felt was simple to accomplish due to the magic that was in the show. The magic was easy to recreate for the chemical reactions. The chemical reactions we used was a fish tank, a bright tooth, finish coloring the school bus, and the two non-reactant ones was the math test and the computer world. Timmy, the 10 year old boy, had two fairies Wanda and Cosmo, along with their little baby Poof, granted him all the wishes he wanted, even to make his babysitter Vicky miserable. One day when Timmy comes home from school, his fairies no longer had their fairy wands! In order to find the wands and continue his crazy adventures, he must search and retrace his steps to find the wands of the fairies to get their powers back. To show them retracing their steps in our board game, we recreated certain episodes for the chemical reactions. As they reach the end of the game, we wrapped an LED strand around the wands to show they have been found and you've completed the game.
Below is the instructions of our game, precautions, how to set up the reactions, the chemical reactions and the analysis of each reactant.
This project was related to the Rube Goldberg project from freshman year. This project is a game your group has created that includes chemical reactions such as a single replacement reaction, double replacement reaction, production of a gas, and to light up an LED. The players in order to win the game, they must complete the reactions correctly to continue through the game. If they did not complete the reaction correctly, they would head back to the start. As we created the game, it includes rules of the game, safety precautions, and a blueprint. This board game is a combination of science and game of play an entertainment of fun while the players get a more understanding of science! The players also get the opportunity to handle chemicals and learn cool experiments.
My group's project:
In the beginning of this project, we struggled to find a theme. Going from under the sea, to space, we discovered a popular old tv show that we all recognized from our childhood, 'The Fairly Odd Parents'. 'The Fairly Odd Parents' felt was simple to accomplish due to the magic that was in the show. The magic was easy to recreate for the chemical reactions. The chemical reactions we used was a fish tank, a bright tooth, finish coloring the school bus, and the two non-reactant ones was the math test and the computer world. Timmy, the 10 year old boy, had two fairies Wanda and Cosmo, along with their little baby Poof, granted him all the wishes he wanted, even to make his babysitter Vicky miserable. One day when Timmy comes home from school, his fairies no longer had their fairy wands! In order to find the wands and continue his crazy adventures, he must search and retrace his steps to find the wands of the fairies to get their powers back. To show them retracing their steps in our board game, we recreated certain episodes for the chemical reactions. As they reach the end of the game, we wrapped an LED strand around the wands to show they have been found and you've completed the game.
Below is the instructions of our game, precautions, how to set up the reactions, the chemical reactions and the analysis of each reactant.
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Concepts:
Single Replacement:A chemical reaction where an element reacts with a compound and takes place of another element in that compound. (AB+C-->>AC+B)
Double Replacement: Exchanges the cations(or anions) of two ionic compounds to form two new compounds. (AB+CD-->>AC+BD)
Decomposition: Reactants break down into two or more products(AB-->>A+B)
Synthesis: Multiple reactants combine to form a single product. (A+B-->>AB)
Cation: Positively charged ion (metals)
Anion: Negatively charged ion (non-metals)
Molarity: Concentration of solution expressed as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
Compound: Made of two elements
L-liquid
G-gas
S-solid
AQ-aqueous(may be dissolved into water)
Reflection:
Overall, my group had awful time management. We struggled to come up with ideas for our project and to also combine them together. The first week was sort of a wasteful week because we had no motivation to complete anything nor did we have any communication for this project. We didn't talk outside of class so we couldn't keep each other on top of this project constantly. The real communication we had was when it was less than a week until the deadline. I personally felt I could have communicated a little more than I did especially in the beginning of this project. Towards the end, I talked to my group every day, even outside of school. As the deadline got closer, our ideas came together and we all always had something to do in order to complete what we wanted to get done that day. Our project turned our very well, and everyone contributed to make this project a success. As I recognized myself in this group, I still need to develop creating ideas for the group to decide from. As I also got better by throwing some ideas, they weren't exactly what my group was looking for, or it wasn't possible to work from in our project to make it work. In conclusion, this project was a success, but we could have used our time management more efficiently.
Single Replacement:A chemical reaction where an element reacts with a compound and takes place of another element in that compound. (AB+C-->>AC+B)
Double Replacement: Exchanges the cations(or anions) of two ionic compounds to form two new compounds. (AB+CD-->>AC+BD)
Decomposition: Reactants break down into two or more products(AB-->>A+B)
Synthesis: Multiple reactants combine to form a single product. (A+B-->>AB)
Cation: Positively charged ion (metals)
Anion: Negatively charged ion (non-metals)
Molarity: Concentration of solution expressed as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
Compound: Made of two elements
L-liquid
G-gas
S-solid
AQ-aqueous(may be dissolved into water)
Reflection:
Overall, my group had awful time management. We struggled to come up with ideas for our project and to also combine them together. The first week was sort of a wasteful week because we had no motivation to complete anything nor did we have any communication for this project. We didn't talk outside of class so we couldn't keep each other on top of this project constantly. The real communication we had was when it was less than a week until the deadline. I personally felt I could have communicated a little more than I did especially in the beginning of this project. Towards the end, I talked to my group every day, even outside of school. As the deadline got closer, our ideas came together and we all always had something to do in order to complete what we wanted to get done that day. Our project turned our very well, and everyone contributed to make this project a success. As I recognized myself in this group, I still need to develop creating ideas for the group to decide from. As I also got better by throwing some ideas, they weren't exactly what my group was looking for, or it wasn't possible to work from in our project to make it work. In conclusion, this project was a success, but we could have used our time management more efficiently.