Chemical Reactions Movie

Evidence of Work:

In this project our objective was to create a movie of any kind with at minimum, 4 chemical reactions in it. My group chose to make a movie revolving around dinosaur extinction. Our chemical reactions were fire, a volcano, fizzing water, and smoke effects. Our movie follows a story line with dinosaurs, until the lagoon begins to fizz as a reaction to the volcano that then erupts. Fire begins to spread, and then the Earth gets struck by a meteor, and smoke emerges from the ground. We then go on to explain each chemical reaction in our directors cut. Each of us worked on a reaction, and we make our initial video with stop motion. Overall, this project came together very well, and we all learned more about the different types of chemical reactions within the project.

Movie Link: https://youtu.be/CC62MANQmFQ

Our Storyboard:

Our Chemical Reactions/Movie Scenes:

Content Vocabulary:

Precipitate: A solid that is produces as a result of a chemical reaction and separates from the solution.

Law of Conservation of Mass: Atoms are neither created or destroyed in chemical reactions but can be rearranged.

Electrolysis: Decomposition of a substance by an electric current.

Synthesis Reaction: Two or more substances combine to form one new compound.

Decomposition Reaction: Single compound produces two or more simpler substances.

Single Displacement Reaction: One element replaces another similar element in a compound.

Double Displacement Reaction: Ions of two compounds exchange places in a solution to form two new compounds.

Coefficients: The large whole number in front of an element in a chemical equation

Reactants: The elements being combined to make the product in a chemical reaction

Product: The result of the reactants being combined in a chemical reaction

Subscripts: The little number below the element symbol indicating how many atoms are present.

Ionic Compounds: An ion with a metal and nonmetal

Molecular compound: A compound with both a nonmetal and nonmetal.

Poly atomic Ions: An ion made up of two or more atoms

Balancing Chemical Equations: Stabilizing chemical reactions so their atoms when combined allow for a stable transition instead of an explosion.

Content Chemical Equations:

  1. Fizzing Water

  2. Volcano

  3. Fire

  4. Smoke

Reflection:

This project was difficult in terms of figuring out the chemistry involved with standard experiments. However, I had a lot of fun doing this project. I used my critical thinking skills well, by pitching ideas and making the project cohesive, since we were not able to be together to film. I also think I collaborated with my group members very well, and I'm proud of our final product. Two things I could improve upon would be my conscientious learning skills, revolving around time management, and my collaboration skills. I was the last one to finish the experiment and I wasn't able to do too many voice-overs because of my schedule. I also didn't get to go over as much in our presentation as I would've liked to. But in general, I think my group and I excelled in this project.