Chemistry Board game
The Goal of this project was to create a family fun board game that can teach people about chemistry by showing them a Single replacement reaction, a double replacement reaction, a gas reaction, and a reaction which destroys a metal which turns a light on. All of these reaction needed to be present in order for the game to fullfill the reaquirements.
The Board Game
The next thing you need to see is the board game. AS you can see there are different blue and red meteors with different numbers on them. The amount of chips you recieve or loose is based upon where you land. You can see at each corner there is a stop sign where you will need to perform each reaction.
The pieces you can play with The chips you collect to complete your reactions Here is each task/reaction you need to complete in order to win the game. These are the raections that occur in the game with its reactants and products written out This is one of the first reactions you can do in the game. This is a double replacement reaction between lead nitrate and potassium iodide. Both reactants are clear but the product is yellow. That is because the product potassium nitrate is yellow. The next reaction you can do is a gas reaction between sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid (baking soda and vinegar). When the two are combine the gas of carbon dioxide is created. The final reaction is a single replacement reaction and one that destroys the metal. |
What's going on in the reactions
Single replacement:
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Double replacement:
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Group reflection:
Positives:
My group consisted of Francesca, Sebastian, and Myself. Our group was easily able to identify each persons skills and assign work to suit those people preferences. For example Francesca is a very talented person when it comes to designing thing so she was assigned to design the playing cards and board game. Sebastian is particle well at thinking of how the board game will work and how the turns work and just how the game runs in general. That left myself to work on all of the chemistry to set up and explain thoroughly. Even though getting to work was a tad slow once we got all our supplies we were able to finish the project very fast. Overall I was very pleased with my groups productivity.
Negatives:
The only major negative we faced was that we didn't prepare enough to actually present our project. We made the mistake of not practicing our actual presentation until the day of presentation night then we found out one of our group members wouldn't be there. It all worked out in the end but this period causesed a bit of stress in the group.
My group consisted of Francesca, Sebastian, and Myself. Our group was easily able to identify each persons skills and assign work to suit those people preferences. For example Francesca is a very talented person when it comes to designing thing so she was assigned to design the playing cards and board game. Sebastian is particle well at thinking of how the board game will work and how the turns work and just how the game runs in general. That left myself to work on all of the chemistry to set up and explain thoroughly. Even though getting to work was a tad slow once we got all our supplies we were able to finish the project very fast. Overall I was very pleased with my groups productivity.
Negatives:
The only major negative we faced was that we didn't prepare enough to actually present our project. We made the mistake of not practicing our actual presentation until the day of presentation night then we found out one of our group members wouldn't be there. It all worked out in the end but this period causesed a bit of stress in the group.