Chemical Dominoes Board Game
Purpose
The purpose of this project was to learn more about chemical reactions. We also developed our teamwork skills and construction skills. I also got to meet new people that I hadn't worked with before and I got along with them great.
Project
We started with a wood board, and had to draw a blueprint for the game. We started out by drawing a path from all four corners, leading into a circle in the middle. we labeled the corners 1-4 and made spaces for pieces to move. Then we paint each space and corner blue, green, red, and yellow and added exclamation points to the four paths, which led to reactions that you had to do. After we painted the board, we built the lever and middle pole, and one of my group members carefully constructed the breadboard to light the LED through the paperclip and wires. We also attached a tube at the end of the lever and added a petri dish on the side of the board. The LED was the "lighting an LED" requirement, the tube was involved with the "double displacement reaction", the petri dish was involved with the "single displacement reaction", the balloon attached to a beaker was involved with the "gas production", and the lever was the "mechanical" part of the game. We also created instructions, game pieces, and cards to go with the game. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture.
Reflection
I thought that this project was fun for the most part. I liked having to construct our own board. We kind of turned ours into a Rube Goldberg machine, but it included many of the required reactions. We had a single displacement reaction on one side of the board. We also had a lever that was triggered by a balloon full of gas, which tipped the lever for a double displacement reaction and sent a current through a paperclip to activate the LED light.
The purpose of this project was to learn more about chemical reactions. We also developed our teamwork skills and construction skills. I also got to meet new people that I hadn't worked with before and I got along with them great.
Project
We started with a wood board, and had to draw a blueprint for the game. We started out by drawing a path from all four corners, leading into a circle in the middle. we labeled the corners 1-4 and made spaces for pieces to move. Then we paint each space and corner blue, green, red, and yellow and added exclamation points to the four paths, which led to reactions that you had to do. After we painted the board, we built the lever and middle pole, and one of my group members carefully constructed the breadboard to light the LED through the paperclip and wires. We also attached a tube at the end of the lever and added a petri dish on the side of the board. The LED was the "lighting an LED" requirement, the tube was involved with the "double displacement reaction", the petri dish was involved with the "single displacement reaction", the balloon attached to a beaker was involved with the "gas production", and the lever was the "mechanical" part of the game. We also created instructions, game pieces, and cards to go with the game. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture.
Reflection
I thought that this project was fun for the most part. I liked having to construct our own board. We kind of turned ours into a Rube Goldberg machine, but it included many of the required reactions. We had a single displacement reaction on one side of the board. We also had a lever that was triggered by a balloon full of gas, which tipped the lever for a double displacement reaction and sent a current through a paperclip to activate the LED light.