chemical dominoes
Project:
For this project we were tasked with creating a game that displayed different types of chemical reactions. We had to include a phase change, creation of a gas, double displacement reaction, and a single replacement reaction that lights up a LED. My group saw this project as an opportunity to do something great so we took the idea and ran with it. instead of making a boring run of the mill game we decided to be really unique. The theme for our board game was ESPN 8 The Ocho, a collection of mini games like the ones you see at carnivals. We made games that were very fun and also very instructive because you could see the reactions happening before your very eyes.
Content:
Atom: the basic unit of a chemical element
Proton: a stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron, but of opposite sign
Neutron: a subatomic particle of about the same mass as a proton but without an electric charge, present in all atomic nuclei except those of ordinary hydrogen
Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids
Element: primary constituents of matter
Compound: a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture
Ion: an atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons
Single Replacement Reaction: chemical reaction where an element reacts with a compound and takes the place of another element in that compound
Double Displacement 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: multiple reactants combine to form a single product
Decomposition Reaction: which a single compound breaks down into two or more elements or new compounds
Combustion: which something reacts with oxygen - commonly known as burning
Aqueous: of or containing water, typically as a solvent or medium
Project:
For this project we were tasked with creating a game that displayed different types of chemical reactions. We had to include a phase change, creation of a gas, double displacement reaction, and a single replacement reaction that lights up a LED. My group saw this project as an opportunity to do something great so we took the idea and ran with it. instead of making a boring run of the mill game we decided to be really unique. The theme for our board game was ESPN 8 The Ocho, a collection of mini games like the ones you see at carnivals. We made games that were very fun and also very instructive because you could see the reactions happening before your very eyes.
Content:
Atom: the basic unit of a chemical element
Proton: a stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron, but of opposite sign
Neutron: a subatomic particle of about the same mass as a proton but without an electric charge, present in all atomic nuclei except those of ordinary hydrogen
Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids
Element: primary constituents of matter
Compound: a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture
Ion: an atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons
Single Replacement Reaction: chemical reaction where an element reacts with a compound and takes the place of another element in that compound
Double Displacement 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: multiple reactants combine to form a single product
Decomposition Reaction: which a single compound breaks down into two or more elements or new compounds
Combustion: which something reacts with oxygen - commonly known as burning
Aqueous: of or containing water, typically as a solvent or medium
This is our first game of the round. Its chemical cornhole and the goal is to throw the alka seltzer tablet (Sodium Bicarbonate) into the cups filled with vinegar (acting as the acid). This results in a creation of a gas because when the reaction occurs carbon dioxide is released.
This game is mini basketball and had our phase change. The goal is to throw our "basketball" into the hoop which then breaks a tissue paper barrier holding up some dry ice. The dry ice then falls into the container filled with water. Once the dry ice falls into the water sublimation immediately occurs. The solid dry ice skips the phase of liquid and immediately turn into gas. The temperature of the water causes this change releasing CO2 and water vapor.
Our third game was guess the chemical color bottle flipping. the contestant is supposed to the the bottle and flip it onto one of the colored circles depending on which color they think our two substances when mixed will make. this mixing of chemicals was our double displacement reaction. In a double displacement reaction occurs when town aqueous solutions combine switching an anion making two new compounds. One of these two new compounds will be aqueous and the other will be a solid. This causes the liquid to change color and and look like there are solids in the solution. The substances we mixed were potassium iodate and lead nitrate and these created a yellow aqueous solution.
Our final game was my personal favorite its mini dart shooting and also our single displacement reaction. We modified a nerf gun to shoot a dart with a tack in the tip. The tack allowed the player to pop a water balloon with copper chloride inside it. The copper chloride ran down our make sift funnel into a bowl containing aluminum foil. When copper chloride comes in contact with aluminum they exchange an element changing the make up of both substances,this also begins to deteriorate the aluminium. The aluminium strip was also connected to a bread board that would light up a LED so when the copper chloride would burn through the aluminium the LED would light up.
This is just a full view of the mini games in order and all of the parts needed to play
Reflection:
This project was super fun! I absolutely loved my group and we worked well together and we came up with lots of creative ideas, like there's no way another group could be as creative as ESPN 8 The Ocho. One peak, or something that went well in this project was our work ethic. From the get go we were miles ahead of other groups, we were finishing parts of our game before others had drawn schematics. When i think of the bad things that normally happen in my groups there's quite a lot, but not this time, everything went according to plan and we were on schedule and our finished product was something i was very proud of and very proud to show off at the STEM night.
This project was super fun! I absolutely loved my group and we worked well together and we came up with lots of creative ideas, like there's no way another group could be as creative as ESPN 8 The Ocho. One peak, or something that went well in this project was our work ethic. From the get go we were miles ahead of other groups, we were finishing parts of our game before others had drawn schematics. When i think of the bad things that normally happen in my groups there's quite a lot, but not this time, everything went according to plan and we were on schedule and our finished product was something i was very proud of and very proud to show off at the STEM night.