Chemical Dominoes:
The Game of Chemistry in the Jungle Safari:
For our first project this year we were told to design a chemical dominoes board game. The project had the option to be formatted like a classic board game with with a game board or be formatted more closely to our Rube Goldberg projects that we made freshman year. Each game was required to to include:
For our first project this year we were told to design a chemical dominoes board game. The project had the option to be formatted like a classic board game with with a game board or be formatted more closely to our Rube Goldberg projects that we made freshman year. Each game was required to to include:
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game board and spinner
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My group chose the classic board approach to our game and took our main inspiration from The Game of Life with a jungle safari theme. We titled our game The Game of Chemistry in the Jungle Safari. Each player started at the box labeled start. Players used a spinner to move through the games path in the hopes of reaching the box labeled finish first causing them to win the game. Throughout game there are various spaces that could either speed up or slow down the length of a player's path to the finish.
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Below are the game play set up and directions, safety precautions, and the full details of each chemical reaction:
This project was really fun and helped me to learn about chemical reactions and everything involved with them. Once my group had decided that we wanted to do a classic style board game we had a hard time coming up with ideas of what to do next and ended up focusing on how to decorate the game board and the visual appeal it would have. We ended up spending a lot of our time doing this which left us to scramble a bit towards the end. We ended up using reactions that we had already tried and practiced in class labs which made the reactions really easy because we already knew what did and didn't work and why. We struggled most with lighting our LED and organizing our set-up, directions, and safety precautions in a way to would be clear and understood by someone with very little background information. In the end we successfully completed all of the project but it could have been done better if we hadn't wasted so much time in the beginning causing us to rush around at the end. Overall, I found this project to be both educational and enjoyable for not only our group but the people who came and played our game too.