ReAction! Movie
ReAction! Movie by Jenna Nottingham, Sam Reyes, Ryan Bacich, and Olivia Rigali
To see the movie, watch it on Ryan's Website:
When you sit down to watch a movie, and they have different special effects that scare us, amaze us, or gross us out, you may sit back and think: "How did they do that?". This is a question that we tried to play with in our ReActions! Movie. In our movie, we included 4 different chemical reactions to make our film more exciting to watch. To start, we brainstormed ideas on a jamboard, and together live in class. Then, we wrote out a script for what we wanted to make our movie look like. We then grabbed our supplies, turned on the camera, and called "ACTION!"
To build up to this project, we learned about different types of chemical reactions, how to write out ion pairs, ionic formulas, the mane of ionic compounds, binary ionic compounds, naming acids, and learned the names, formulas, and charges of common ions. Before even learning all of this, we broke down the periodic table into groups to find what their ionic charge would be.
For our movie, we did four different chemical reactions: tube of smoke, light from a magnesium ribbon, elephant toothpaste, and lemon invisible ink.
Balance Equation for each Chemical Reaction
Tube of Smoke
Equation: 16KCl + 3PS → 16KCl + 9SO
Reactants:
Potassium chloride (16KCl)
Phosphorus sulfide (3PS)
Products:
Potassium chloride (16KCl)
Sulfur oxide (9SO)
Magnesium Ribbon
Equation: 2Mg + O2 → 2MgO
Reactants:
Magnesium: (2Mg)
Oxygen: (O2)
Products:
Magnesium oxide (2MgO)
Elephant Toothpaste
Equation: H2O2 + C19H14O2 + C17H35COO + H2O
Reactants:
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
Yeast (C19H14O2)
Dish Soap (C17H35COO)
Water (H2O)
Invisible Ink
Equation: C6H8O7 + CH4 + 2O2 → C6H8O7 + CO2 + 2H2O
Reactants:
Citric Acid (C6H8O7)
Methane (CH4)
Oxygen (2O2)
Products:
Citric Acid (C6H8O7)
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Water (2H2O)
Definitions
Synthesis Reaction: when two reactants form one product
Decomposition Reaction: when one reactant separates into two products
Single Displacement Reaction: when one reactant singly replaces another
Double Displacement Reaction: when each of the cations switch places
Neutralization Reaction: when an acid and a base come together to make water and a salt
Combustion Reaction: a hydrocarbon combines with oxygen which makes carbon dioxide and water
Reflection
I really enjoyed this project. I thought the concept was really fun and I really enjoyed working with my group. I think that our video turned out great! It was funny, it was entertaining and it got all of our reactions across. In this project, I think I was a good collaborator and a good conscientious learner. I think that everyone in my group did a good job evenly doing the work for this project. Everyone contributed by choosing one experiment and get supplies for those reactions. We all participated in the film and all participated in coming up with the equations for the reactions. I also think I did a good job being a conscientious learner. For 3 out of 4 of our reactions, we did not do them in class, and we did not know what the balanced equation was. So, I had to look up each formula and put together the equations by myself. I think that this really showed that I started to understand how chemical formulas work, even though I might have done a few wrong.
I think that my group and I needed to work on time management. Because all of us were taking different AP exams, there were days where half of our group could not go to school on the few days we had live class. That was hard because with the few days we had to film, more than half of them we couldn't actually film. This led to us having to stay after school or leave other classes to film extra clips the day before it was due. Although we were able to finish on time, we could have started this a couple days earlier and would have been done without taking extra time out of the day. I also think I could have worked on asking Mrs. Vogl more questions. I should have taken the time to talk to her about how the balanced equation to make sure that they are correct.