CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE

GAME~A game through a Science lab @ NIST~

By… You will know at the last part…

Your task• Start off by playing the game. You may need to be a bit

patient on some slides as a video needs to load.• What is the aim of the game? What does it teach you about

the elements?• Add at least 4 more elements and their properties to the

story. • The boxes are just shapes that I have added text to and then

I have clicked on the Action button in the insert menu. To add a video, copy the embed code from youtube (you need the old embed code on the tick boxes) and then in powerpoint insert a video from a website.

• If you cannot figure out how to make it in powerpoint, do it as a small written book with instructions to turn to a particular page.

In a dark science lab, in the back of the room, there is a smelly cupboard. The cupboard has a lock, but it

looks like someone has opened it.

Unlock the cupboard and look inside

Don’t look inside, its too

scary and smelly

WHAT?!You’ve given up on this story already…. You’ve not found out anything about the

elements yet.

Go back to the start and be an inquisitive

scientist

The smell seems to be coming from several boxes, glass bottles and containers in a

tray.

Close the cupboard door quickly and hope nobody notices. Pull the tray out and put it on a table

There is a glass bottle, it has the letters Na written on it. Inside there is a liquid and

something shiny sitting in the liquid. On the outside there

seems to be a hazard label but its torn.

Pour the liquid down the sink and pick up the shiny thing with

my fingers.

Why would something be kept in a liquid? Maybe I should do some

research.

NOT A CLEVER IDEA

Go back

Find out what happens if the liquid substance –Sodium- touches water, even just a bit of sweat on your hands by watching the video below or with the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqDWbknpiVkWhat do you think the liquid was that you poured away if it’s not water?

TRY AGAIN>>>

Na – Sodium –

Highly explosive

Find out what happens if Na touches water, even just a bit of sweat on your hands by watching the video below or with the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqDWbknpiVkWhat do you think the liquid was that you poured away if it’s not water?

NEXT

In the tray there was also a heavy block. It has a rusty smell to it. Some of the red rusty powder breaks off. There is a magnet in the tray. When

the magnet comes close to the heavy block it….

Quickly moves

towards the magnet

Nothing happens

It is….

IRONOne of the magnetic elements.

Which two other elements in the periodic table are magnetic?

http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/transition.html

Which group in the periodic table are they in?

Next

It was…

IRON One of the magnetic elements, so it quickly moves toward other magnetic substances.Which two other elements in the periodic table are magnetic?

http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/transition.htmlWhich group in the periodic table are they in? Next

Nope you’re WRONG.

In the tray there is a brown pale liquid in a tightly sealed

tube. The tube has some symbols on it.

When I hold it in my hands I see a brown gas start to

appear.

The boiling point of the liquid must be quite low if I can turn it into a gas in my

hands.

The melting point of the liquid must be quite high if I can turn it into a gas in my

hands.

Liquids don’t melt!And the temperature of my hands is about 37 degrees Celsius which is not that high.

Go back and have another go.

WHAT?!

It is….

BROMINE (Br)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQSwiv3gCg

Next

In the tray there is another small sealed jar. There is a liquid inside, but it looks shiny.

Maybe it’s a metal, but aren’t all metals solid? Maybe I need to do

some researchMaybe it’s from another planet.

That’s a science joke :-P

Ha ha ha h-ha……….. We’re not very good at jokes…

The reason it’s a bad joke and not very funny, is because the element is Mercury (another planet …. Get it?....No not very funny)

Next

MERCURYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL0M_6bfzkU

Only watch the first 30 seconds.

Next

There are 5 small balloons filled with gases. They look all the same at first but some are tied to the

tray to stop them floating away.

Maybe they all belong to the same group in the

periodic table

Maybe they have nothing in common.

WHAT?!They are all gases, so of course they have

something in common

Next

They were…

NOBLE GLASSESWatch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLrofyj6a2s

Next

WHEN YOU LOOKED CLOSLEY TO THE NOBLE GLASSES…

It says something on the glasses! Have a closer look.

GO

INTO

THE

DARK

ROOMNEXT

DOOR

Go into the dark room as it says

Don’t follow

the direction. Go and

play!

You’ve come into a the dark room and you barely see a thing. But you can see, just one

light.Go and have a closer

look.

You don’t know why lights are there and it’s spooky. Run away from

this room.

WHAT?! You only have that much interest in SCIENCE?I can’t believe it. You shouldn’t even have tried this adventure. Go to the principle's office!!! – just joking :-P

Go back and try again.

Game Over

You find out that the shining light were many colorful glowing sticks. You look closer into it and see that there is something

inside that makes it glow.What is this thing?

I want to find out more. I’ll do a bit of research

again.

What ever I don’t care. It’s still interesting, I am

going to play with it!

NEON –Ne-

Boiling Point: - 246.1 Degrees CelsiusMelting Point: - 248.6 Degrees Celsius.

You find out that in this glowing substance, there was a chemical called Neon. There was gas inside the tubes, with electrons following, making it glow. You realize that they are also used in Advertisements. Watch the video of how to make neon advertisement boards:

Next

You finally get to go out of the Dark room. But there, waits you another chemical called MAGNESIUM , with

a question on. There are no adults near you.

What Is my

Boiling Temperature?

MAGNESIUM boil? Wow, I am interested to know.

Maybe I should do some research:

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ma/Magnesium

Read the whole site.

MAGNESIUM boil? Wow, I am interested to know. I am going to do an experiment because it will be much fun

that way!

You find the Boiling Temperature of the Magnesium realize that it is pretty high. You are relieved that you didn’t do an experiment.Watch this video to learn the danger about Magnesium:

Next

NOT A CLEVER IDEA

Go back

You played with the glowing stick, which was actually a glowing glass tube with NEON GAS in it, with electrons passing by, making the stick glow.You accidently break the glass tube and get electrocuted. Now you can’t even do Science experiments that you liked to do!

TRY AGAIN>>>

You quickly get water and extinguish the fire because

you don’t want to get in trouble.

You got a match and a candle, and a pot, full of water. You then poured in a random amount of magnesium without a safety goggle. You saw the reaction to the magnesium and while getting interested, you dropped some magnesium on your hand into the candle and started burning.

What do you do?

Call a Science teacher in the Teacher’s room, even though

you are not allowed in.

You rushed towards the Science Teacher’s room and asked for help because there was a fire.

You got in a huge trouble because you did an experiment without adult assistance, but the teacher put sand on the

burning flame and told you never to use water to extinguish Magnesium fire because it will react violently: Read this for info.

http://www.midsouthrescue.org/id21.html

Next

A VERY DANGEROUS IDEA

Go back and have a second chance.

You poured a huge amount of water to extinguish the fire, but Unfortunately, Magnesium reacts very violently with Water. See the video:

Also visit this website: http://www.midsouthrescue.org/id21.htmlSo that you won’t do this again.Burning Magnesium with strong brightness:

You now find your self outside on a balcony, and it is already night. You think to yourself that time had passed so fast. Suddenly, you hear a boom and you see bright light going up in front of you and a nice fire work goes up. You are getting bored on the simple fire works that comes up all the time and all of a sudden there is a different sound from the fire works and when you look up,

the light turned into words and asked you a Question:

WHAT IS USED INSIDE ME???

Then after that another went up, as it was reminding you.

THIS IS FOR HW!

Go and research on this website:http://

encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/su/Sulfur

And read only the “Application” bit

Never mind, I don’t like Home works. I’ll do it after I finish watching

this beautiful Fireworks.

Soon, the fire works ended and you were very sleepy so you went

home…On the following day, you tell the teacher that you didn’t do your

home work and you get in trouble.

Well, I now have time, I am going to do it. Go to this website then click this box.

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/su/Sulfur

It is…SULPHUR

-S-

Atomic Number: 16Atomic mass: 32Boiling Point: 444.6 Degrees CelsiusMelting Point: 119.05 Degrees Celsius

NEXT

You go out of the room, and the you are asked by the teacher to turn on the brightest lamp in the class

room. You see that the lamp is actually very light and high powered. When you try to turn on the switch, you

saw a little sticky note, with a question on:

------?

What is

Powering me,

so that I am

very bright and

high powered?

Maybe I should do some research:

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/sc/Scandium

Read only Applications

I am not really interested, so I am just going to

pretend I never saw that sticky note.

WHAT?!You only have that much interest in SCIENCE????I can’t believe you!!!

Go back and become more of a Keen scientist

It is…SCANDIUM –SC-

You go back to turn off the light this time, and discover more information on the sticky note. Who on earth put this though???

Atomic No. : 21

Atomic Mass : 44.96

Boiling Point : 1541 C

Melting Point: 2830 C

P.S. Well done! If you are

here, that means that you are

doing all right with your

adventure. Unfortunately, it is

almost the end, so you have

just one more task…

To FIND WHO I AM….

NEXT

YOUR FINAL CHALLENGE…

WHO AM I?

(The one who’s been

making this

adventure for you…)

HINT: It’s more than a

person.

Ms. Perry & Mari

A group of Unknown Scientists

Mari & a game

company

Mari, and Fah

Mari and a boy

The NIST Science teacher team

Ms. Perry and Mr.

Riley

The IB people

CORRECT!!!You are, CORRECT!!!

Yes, Mari and Ms. Perry created this. Ms. Perry created the first bit and I (Mari) added four more chemical elements on it, so that the game will be continued and will be ended!!!

Well Done with the Adventure and I hope you had FUN!!!

NEXT

Sorry, but you are wrong. The answer, was “Mari and Ms. Perry”.Ms. Perry created the first half of the adventure game and I (Mari in Y8D) created the second half of the adventure game, by adding the last 4 chemical elements on.

Well Done with the Adventure and I hope you had FUN as well as LEARNED!

WRONG!!!

NEXT

GAME OVERI thought you were more better than this….

Try again

THE END

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