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| Chapter 10: Movie Special Effects |
| Activity Summaries |
Chemistry Principles |
Activity 1: Elements and Compounds
Students learn the basic concept of what matter is and how we can dissociate compounds back to elements. Also, simple tests are used to identify the properties of hydrogen and oxygen gas.
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- Electrolysis
- Chemical reaction
- Chemical elements
- Compounds
- Chemical properties
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Activity 2: States of Matter: Solid, Liquid, and Gas
The students develop a heating curve of water as it goes through the three physical states of a solid, liquid, and gas. From the understanding of phase changes, the students develop animation to represent each phase. |
- Heating curves
- Kinetic energy
- Potential energy
- Physical states of matter
- Molecular motion
- Sublimation
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Activity 3: Solutions, Suspensions, and Colloids
Students learn that different materials can combine to make new materials when mixed together. They also learn how to classify a material as a solution, colloid, or suspension. Tyndall effect is used to help differentiate the different types of mixtures.
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- Tyndall effect
- Filtration
- Homogeneous mixture
- Heterogeneous mixture
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Activity 4: Properties of Matter
Students learn how to use modeling dough to illustrate macro structures at a smaller scale. They also compare the properties of emulsions to those of a composite. Finally, students learn how composites are used in industrial applications.
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- Physical properties
- Composites
- Emulsions
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Activity 5: Mass and Volume
The students determine the density of liquids and solids. They also learn how to determine the density of irregularly shaped solids and how to determine the density of air. The use of significant figures in determining the density of different materials is emphasized.
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- Density
- Displacement
- Measurements
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Activity 6: Metals and Nonmetals
Students observe physical and chemical properties of metals and nonmetals. From these observations they classify materials as metals or nonmetals. They also learn how different metals can be put together to make alloys.
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- Metallic properties
- Metalloids
- Nonmetals
- Alloys
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Activity 7: Polymers
Students make a cross-linked polymer. The slime that they produced is classified as a non-Newtonian fluid. They study the properties of this special material and compare it to the properties of solids and liquids. |
- Polymers
- Cross-linked polymers
- Commercial uses of polymers
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Activity 8: Identifying Matter
Students discover that metal compounds have characteristic colored flames and that by combining dissimilar metal compounds they can produce visible flames with different colors. The principles of fireworks are reviewed as well as how these metals are used to produce the various colors observed in fireworks displays. |
- Metal visible colored flame
- Electron excitation
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Activity 9: Organic Substances
Students learn the various structures of hydrocarbons. They also learn how ethylene gas is used to ripen fruit. The activity includes a discussion of how the term "organic" is used differently by laypersons and scientists
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